philology

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archaeology

Egypt

ology (the study of)

origin

language

literature

linguistics

phobia

word

Adam and Eve

Romanian (language)

Hieroglyphics

cave art

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foreign language

guidance

guardian angel

is tasked with the dirty work of laying the foundations for the preservation of a few noble books of great value for sake of the very few human beings who will know how to use them, a select group of souls who always will come but are never there.

A remark for philologists.- 'That some books are so valuable and so royal that whole generations of scholars are well em- ployed if their labors to preserve these books in a state that is pure and intelligible-philology exists in order to fortify this faith again and again. It presupposes that there is no lack of those rare human beings (even if one does not see them) who really know how to use such valuable books-presumably those who write, or could for the sake of a very few human beings, who always will come but are never there, a very large amount of fastidious and even dirty work needs to be done first: all of it is work in sum Delphinium.

is the capacity for absorbing facts without interpreting them falsely and without losing caution, patience, and subtlety in the effort to understand them.

Art Of Reading With Profit - The Capacity For Absorbing Facts Without Interpreting Them Falsely And Without Losing Caution, Patience, And Subtlety In The Effort To Understand Them.

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