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Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture
Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton
In science, read, by preference the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classics are always modern.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Bulwer-Lytton splits reading advice in two. Go for the newest work in science, but the oldest in literature. His claim is that the classics never truly age, so a very old book can still feel entirely current.
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