For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

The line is a compact hymn of gratitude for the material and institutional means by which learning circulates. By blessing God “in the libraries of the learned,” Smart frames scholarship and reading as occasions for devotion, not merely intellectual exercise. The added thanks “for all the booksellers in the world” widens the scope from elite repositories to the commercial networks that put books into readers’ hands. The effect is to sanctify the whole ecology of print—collectors, catalogues, shops, and shelves—as instruments of providence and culture, implying that access to books is itself a kind of grace.