“The next words only strengthen the same idea--originated and published _for the dissemination of information of a public character_. Not, it will be observed, that it shall _contain_ information of a public character, but shall be published _for the dissemination of_ such public information. Each of these words is significant, and each gathers significance from its neighbors. _Dissemination_ is here a word of strong color and tinges all the rest. It indicates a dynamic process, an agency at work carrying out a purpose for which it was originated and set in motion. But strong as the word dissemination is, it is fortified by the use of the word _information_. An agency for the dissemination of knowledge for example, might better consist with the idea of a library of books. But the word is not knowledge, but _information_. The distinction is obvious. One has the sense of accumulated stores; the other of _imparting the idea of things for current needs_. One is, as it were, human experience at rest; the other, human experience in action. One may be as stale as you please; the other must be new, fresh, vital. A book, a volume, is the medium of one; a journal the medium of the other. “Information,” says the Century Dictionary, “is timely or specific knowledge respecting some _matter of interest or inquiry_.” It is, as it were, vitalized knowledge; knowledge imbued with life and activity. Nor when we come to the next phase do we find any change in the idea--or devoted to literature, the sciences, arts, or some special industry. _Devoted_ to literature. Mark you, not that the publication shall be literature or contain literature, but that it shall be devoted to literature. What is meant by devoted? The Century Dictionary puts it thus: To direct or apply chiefly or wholly to some purpose, work, or use; to give or surrender completely, as to some person or end, as to _devote_ oneself to art, literature, or philanthropy. There again we have the idea of a permanent continuing entity, a thing existing for a given purpose, appearing regularly at such intervals (not greater than three months), as may most effectually meet its needs, in the interest of art, of science, or literature. Do we say that a book--a novel, a history, a drama--is devoted to literature? It is not devoted to literature; _it is literature_, and it would be an absurdity to speak of it as devoted to itself. Such a locution would be merely a willful perversion of language.