BIBLICAL LIBRARIES
than another of 10,000—for every purpose. So of documents.
"Business" character too does not count; many a farmer's library is made up almost wholly of free government documents and railroad literature: and it may indeed be a rather large, well selected and useful library at that. Certainly neither collection is a man's "archive."
So again, and obviously, locality does not count: There must be many libraries in Italy, say, containing only Italian books printed in Italy.
On the other hand the constructive conclusions show that every temple had at least a collection of school textbooks and reference books, amounting in some cases to several hundred tablets, with a collection of religious texts amounting also at least to several hundred texts, while in the case of the largest collection, there may have been thousands (although not ranging high into the thousands). In brief,
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