Parts of Kant

Teddy Roosevelt. The older I get the more I admire the man.  Though he was a ham and a showman, like a better Donald Trump for a much better age.

Here he is on reading.  Some excerpts:

Now and then I am asked as to “what books a statesman should read,” and my answer is, poetry and novels — including short stories under the head of novels.

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why! there are scores and scores of solid histories, the best in the world, which are as absorbing as the best of all the novels, and of as permanent value.

The same thing is true of Darwin and Huxley and Carlyle and Emerson, and parts of Kant, and of volumes like Sutherland’s “Growth of the Moral Instinct,” or Acton’s Essays and Lounsbury’s studies

Parts of Kant!  Ha ha ha ha.  Oh, Teddy.

 I still read a number of Scott’s novels over and over again, whereas if I finish anything by Miss Austen I have a feeling that duty performed is a rainbow to the soul. But other booklovers who are very close kin to me, and whose taste I know to be better than mine, read Miss Austen all the time — and, moreover, they are very kind, and never pity me in too offensive a manner for not reading her myself.