"True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgement."
— Scholarship

January 1, 1970

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James Russell Lowell "The First Need of American Culture" (1894); cited from Martin Duberman James Russell Lowell (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966) p. 161.