...thinking, and excite him to activity; the world for him can
never be quite the same that it was before. Such books have an
important part in moulding the character of a people. It is
because the books represented in this volume have been doing
just that for many years that they have become so prized. In the
characters of Crusoe, Gulliver and Christian, to mention only
three, English-speaking people recognize pictures of the
independent, self-reliant men, often self-educated (at...