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<p>A good book resonates with its readers' actualities; without necessarily winning assent, the argument mysteriously induces sympathetic vibrations, the significance of which may quite excel that of the point at issue. This resonance arises because a book is read in the midst of definite conditions, which it may affect, not only through its argument, but through its style, through the quality of communication that its author engenders.</p> | <p>A good book resonates with its readers' actualities; without necessarily winning assent, the argument mysteriously induces sympathetic vibrations, the significance of which may quite excel that of the point at issue. This resonance arises because a book is read in the midst of definite conditions, which it may affect, not only through its argument, but through its style, through the quality of communication that its author engenders.</p> | ||