Read the following lines from the essay, "On Reading and Books" by Arthur Schopenhauer, and answer the question that follows:

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Read the following lines from the essay, "On Reading and Books" by Arthur
Schopenhauer, and answer the question that follows:
"There are at all times two literatures which, although scarcely known to each other,
progress side by side-the one real, the other merely apparent. The former grows
into literature that lasts. Pursued by people who live for science or poetry, it goes its
way earnestly and quietly, but extremely slowly, and it produces in Europe scarcely a
dozen works in a century, which, however, are permanent. The other literature is
pursued by people who live on science or poetry; it goes at a gallop amid a great noise
and shouting of those taking part, and brings yearly many thousand works into the
market. But after a few years one asks, Where are they? Where is their fame, which
was so great formerly? This class of literature may be distinguished as fleeting, the
other as permanent."
What is the purpose of the writer to use this comparison?
To talk about the literates of science and art
O To tell about the types of literature
To make readers understand what good books are

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