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“Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize the "establishment" which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.”

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Elizabeth Gould Davis

Elizabeth Gould Davis, born in the United States in 1910, was an outstanding librarian. She had a profound expertise in library management, bibliographic classification, and library education, making significant contributions to the development of the library profession. more

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