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BIBLIOTHECA SACRA.

ARTICLE I.

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BY REV. J. W. WELLMAN, D.D., NEWTON, MASS.

THE library, in the sense of a treasury of books, is not a modern institution. It can boast of great antiquity. The ancient Egyptians made vast collections of parchments. Osymandyas, one of the ancient kings of Egypt, it is claimed, was the first who founded a library. On the entrance of his library building were inscribed the words, "The Dispensary of the Soul"; and on the walls was sculptured "a judge, with the image of truth suspended from his neck, and many books or rolls lying before him." There was a library at Memphis so early in history that Homer was accused of having stolen from it the Iliad and the Odyssey, and of afterwards publishing them as his own. But the most famous collection in Egypt was that wonderful library at Alexandria, founded by Ptolemy Soter about B.C. 300, and afterwards greatly enlarged by Ptolemy Philadelphus. It contained at one time seven hundred thousand volumes; and when destroyed by the Saracens A.D. 642, so vast was the collection, that the parchments were distributed among the four thousand baths of the city to be burned, and it required "six months to consume them."

1 The substance of this Article was delivered as an Address at the opening of the Free Public Library at Newton, Mass., June 17, 1870.

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