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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York: To Which Are Prefixed, the Constitution and the Rules and Regulations of the Same
These views cannot be deemed visionary, if our fel low members be actuated by a proper spirit. But for such purposes, it is necessary that we should duly estimate the commercial honour of our city, and dear ly cherish the professional character which we are preparing to assume. It is essential that we should not content ourselves merely with profiting by the advantages to be derived from this society, but that we should also seek, with an enterprising zeal, to extend its invaluable privileges to others.
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