"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Friday, January 01, 2016
Intellectual Slaves
Galen, On the Natural Faculties 1.13.35 (tr. A.J. Brock):
The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!