在他晚年智力（这似乎在这一点上品尝的衰老小），施特劳斯宣布[1]是不朽的学说，最近丧失了一个过得去的论点的援助，因为它已发现的恒星有人居住，为在那里，他问，现在可以室这样众多的灵魂找到？同样，在对未来人口的这个地球上目前的估计，一些人已开始受理英国可能条件报警（如果不是英国）当她（说）70是对六，分配给她百万800为美国数以百万计。我们已听取了人口的压力后，粮食系统，可是由于空间是难以却又熟悉的思想，任何来自任何方面的压力。不过，我想，许多读者必须是同圣约翰夸张幼稚的简单平衡，[2]也许是它在新约一种孤独单位：“如果他们哪些应该写每一个人，我想，即使是世界本身不能包含应的书。“
    一本书，甚至奥杜邦（我相信最大的已知），比男人少，但与空间，我招待后，可用空间从比人类的数字图书人口最直接的压力逮捕。我们应该记得，有一个实现的概念远远超出我们通常能够达到，是一本书组成，像一个人，从他们的血统它绘制的身体和灵魂。他们并不总是彼此相称。不仅如此，即使是这本书的不同成员体不唱歌，但冲突，当一充沛的高昂成本所限，绑定，如经常在圣经和奉献的书籍的情况发生，经信尊敬的记者是工匠的工作仅此而已。在文艺复兴的男子是一个适应的真实意识的宝石绑定的年龄也是照明年龄和美丽的缩略图，而在早期阶段意味着一方或保证金艺术，[3]，然后在该帐户小portraitures包括在它逐步纳入现代意义上的微型下滑。有一个警告，我们应与我们越来越多的得到执行，因为我们在开放图书贸易未来一段时间内观点，几乎无限的需求。崇高的作品不应该被印在均值和毫无价值的形式，和廉价应该由一个本能的健身意识和法律限制。一本书的约束力是着装与它走外面的世界。该文件，类型和油墨是身体，在它的灵魂，是定居。这三个，灵魂，身体和habilament，是黑社会，应予以调整的和谐和良好的法律意识彼此。
    已经书籍的增加传递到几何级数。这是不是有点不寻常的，我们不要忘记，在英国，其中我说，虽然是一种廉价的工程庞大的供应，什么被称为“新闻界的新出版物”的问题，在大多数情况下，在价格惊人的高，使真正的买主类已灭绝，留下，买家只是少数人谁几乎可以上屈指可数，而有效的流通后，中间取决于男子通过流通库引擎。这些都不是作为书籍distributers这么多的业主，他们减轻细分的成本，dearness困难，然后再出售的是体面的条件下仍然在大量减少此类副本。正是这种东西的状态，因为，在我看来，主要是对版权的，这或许可能有助于弥补讽刺（有时是不真实的）的话，在遇险或压力倍男子让路现行法律的形式他们的第一经济体的慈善机构，他们的第二次他们的书籍。
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    In the old age of his intellect (which at this point seemed to taste a little of decrepitude), Strauss declared [1] that the doctrine of immortality has recently lost the assistance of a passable argument, inasmuch as it has been discovered that the stars are inhabited; for where, he asks, could room now be found for such a multitude of souls? Again, in view of the current estimates of prospective population for this earth, some people have begun to entertain alarm for the probable condition of England (if not Great Britain) when she gets (say) seventy millions that are allotted to her against six or eight hundred millions for the United States. We have heard in some systems of the pressure of population upon food; but the idea of any pressure from any quarter upon space is hardly yet familiar. Still, I suppose that many a reader must have been struck with the naive simplicity of the hyperbole of St. John, [2] perhaps a solitary unit of its kind in the New Testament: "the which if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written."
    A book, even Audubon (I believe the biggest known), is smaller than a man; but, in relation to space, I entertain more proximate apprehension of pressure upon available space from the book population than from the numbers of mankind. We ought to recollect, with more of a realized conception than we commonly attain to, that a book consists, like a man, from whom it draws its lineage, of a body and a soul. They are not always proportionate to each other. Nay, even the different members of the book-body do not sing, but clash, when bindings of a profuse costliness are imposed, as too often happens in the case of Bibles and books of devotion, upon letter-press which is respectable journeyman's work and nothing more. The men of the Renascence had a truer sense of adaptation; the age of jewelled bindings was also the age of illumination and of the beautiful miniatura, which at an earlier stage meant side or margin art,[3] and then, on account of the small portraitures included in it, gradually slid into the modern sense of miniature. There is a caution which we ought to carry with us more and more as we get in view of the coming period of open book trade, and of demand practically boundless. Noble works ought not to be printed in mean and worthless forms, and cheapness ought to be limited by an instinctive sense and law of fitness. The binding of a book is the dress with which it walks out into the world. The paper, type and ink are the body, in which its soul is domiciled. And these three, soul, body, and habilament, are a triad which ought to be adjusted to one another by the laws of harmony and good sense.
    Already the increase of books is passing into geometrical progression. And this is not a little remarkable when we bear in mind that in Great Britain, of which I speak, while there is a vast supply of cheap works, what are termed "new publications" issue from the press, for the most part, at prices fabulously high, so that the class of real purchasers has been extirpated, leaving behind as buyers only a few individuals who might almost be counted on the fingers, while the effective circulation depends upon middle-men through the engine of circulating libraries. These are not so much owners as distributers of books, and they mitigate the difficulty of dearness by subdividing the cost, and then selling such copies as are still in decent condition at a large reduction. It is this state of things, due, in my opinion, principally to the present form of the law of copyright, which perhaps may have helped to make way for the satirical (and sometimes untrue) remark that in times of distress or pressure men make their first economies on their charities, and their second on their books.
    The annual arrivals at the Bodleian Library are, I believe, some twenty thousand; at the British Museum, forty thousand, sheets of all kinds included. Supposing three-fourths of these to be volumes, of one size or another, and to require on the average an inch of shelf space, the result will be that in every two years nearly a mile of new shelving will be required to meet the wants of a single library. But, whatever may be the present rate of growth, it is small in comparison with what it is likely to become. The key of the question lies in the hands of the United Kingdom and the United States jointly. In this matter there rests upon these two Powers no small responsibility. They, with their vast range of inhabited territory, and their unity of tongue, are masters of the world, which will have to do as they do. When the Britains and America are fused into one book market; when it is recognized that letters, which as to their material and their aim are a high-soaring profession, as to their mere remuneration are a trade; when artificial fetters are relaxed, and printers, publishers, and authors obtain the reward which well-regulated commerce would afford them, then let floors beware lest they crack, and walls lest they bulge and burst, from the weight of books they will have to carry and to confine.
    It is plain, for one thing, that under the new state of things specialism, in the future, must more and more abound. But specialism means subdivision of labor; and with subdivision labor ought to be more completely, more exactly, performed. Let us bow our heads to the inevitable; the day of encyclopaedic learning has gone by. It may perhaps be said that that sun set with Leibnitz. But as little learning is only dangerous when it forgets that it is little, so specialism is only dangerous when it forgets that it is special. When it encroaches on its betters, when it claims exceptional certainty or honor, it is impertinent, and should be rebuked; but it has its own honor in its own province, and is, in any case, to be preferred to pretentious and flaunting sciolism.
    A vast, even a bewildering prospect is before us,