In every library of any considerable age, there is to be found, in dusty corners, an immense mass of books, classified under “theology,” seldom, if ever, read or even “consulted,” the despair at once of the librarian and of the caretakers. To modern minds, it seems all but inconceivable that anyone could ever have had the slightest interest in them – yet, publishers tell us even today that “religious books” are no bad publishing proposition, so that, presumably, these now neglected shelves will be steadily recruited till later generations will, doubtless, wonder even more at the phenomenon.
From: William C. Abbott in The American Historical Review, Volume 33, Number 4 (July, 1928), p. 866.
