Saturday, July 29, 2023
The Pure-Hearted Scholar
M.L. Clarke, Greek Studies in England 1700-1830 (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1945), pp. 50-51 (on Jeremiah Markland ):
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Markland is the type of the pure-hearted scholar. He was content with the company of his books; he was without ambition and without vices. He believed that a scholar should be humanus. 'What profit is it', he asked, 'if an education in letters instead of making us, as it professes to, gentle, upright, simple, frank, modest and kindly towards all men, renders us fierce, virulent, cunning, arrogant, malignant and implacable towards all who presume to differ from us even in trifles.'1The original Latin of the quotation:
1 Supplices, Dedication.
Quid prodest, si pro Mitibus, Probis, Simplicibus, Ingenuis, Modestis, Benevolis erga omnes Homines, quales promittit Literata Institutio; ea nos dimittat Feroces, Maledicos, Versutos, Insolentes, Malignos, Implacabiles omnibus qui a nobis dissentire ausi fuerint, etiam in nugis?
