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    The Importance of the Proof-reader A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston, by John Wilson
    The Importance of the Proof-reader A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston, by John Wilson
    The Importance of the Proof-reader A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston, by John Wilson
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    The Importance of the Proof-reader A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston, by John Wilson

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    The Importance of the Proof-reader A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston, by John Wilson
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    John Wilson

    Qualified in agricultural science, medicine, surgery and psychiatry, Dr John Wilson practised for thirty-seven years, specialising as a consultant psychiatrist. In Sydney, London, California and Melbourne, he used body-oriented therapies including breath-awareness, and re-birthing. He promoted the ‘Recovery Model of Mental Health’ and healing in general. At Sydney University, he taught in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, within the School of Public Health. He has worked as Technical Manager of a venture-capital project, producing health foods in conjunction with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Dissenting from colonial values, he saw our ecological crisis as more urgent than attending urban distress. Almost thirty years ago, instead of returning to the academy, he went bush, learning personal downsizing and voluntary simplicity from Aboriginal people. Following his deepening love of the wild through diverse ecologies, he turned eco-activist, opposing cyanide gold mining in New South Wales and nuclear testing in the Pacific. Spending decades in the Australian outback, reading and writing for popular appreciation, he now fingers Plato, drawing on history, the classics, art, literature, philosophy and science for this book about the psychology of ecology – eco-psychology – about the very soul of our ecocidal folly.

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      Title: The Importance of the Proof-reader

      A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston, by John Wilson

      Author: John Wilson

      Release Date: December 21, 2008 [EBook #27583]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PROOF-READER ***

      Produced by Louise Davies and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      The Importance of

      the Proof-reader

      The Importance of

      the Proof-reader

      A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes,

      in Boston, by

      John Wilson

      CAMBRIDGE

      The University Press

      JOHN WILSON & SON (

      Inc.

      )

      1901

      THIS Paper upon The Importance of the Proof-reader is presented with the compliments of the University Press and the Author. The subject is one which the Author has endeavored to emphasize during his fifty years’ service in the printing business, and one for which the University Press has ever endeavored to stand.

      1922

      JOHN WILSON, author of this Paper and formerly proprietor of The University Press, died in 1903. His successors have now the pleasure of making a reprint, believing the subject to be of as much interest today as it was twenty years ago.

      The Importance of the Proof-reader

      IN preparing a work for the press, the author, the compositor, and the proof-reader are the three factors that enter into its construction. We will, however, treat more especially of the last-named in connection with the first.

      The true proof-reader should not only be a practical printer, but he should be a lover of literature, familiar with the classics of all languages, with the results accomplished by science, and indeed with every subject

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