Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert. Gold-Foil, Hammered from Popular Proverbs. Charles Scribner, 1859, p. 182.
Dyson was explaining the problem of Black authors getting published and having the forum for their views in particular and Black views in general. Dyson however, did not appear to take the Internet and the bloggers into account at the time. We are not far from the time that printed books will be obsolete and they will be distrusted electronically. When that is so,the classic publisher role as a gatekeeper, will end.
Josiah Gilbert Holland was an American novelist and poet who also wrote under the pseudonym Timothy Titcomb. He helped to found and edit Scribner's Monthly (afterwards the Century Magazine), in which appeared his novels, Arthur Bonnicastle, The Story of Sevenoaks, Nicholas Minturn. In poetry he wrote "Bitter-Sweet" (1858), "Kathrina", the lyrics to the Methodist hymn "There's a Song in the Air", and many others.