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To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central humane system of thought. the present age is peculiarly barbaric: introduce, say, a hebrew scholar to an ichthyologist or an authority on danish place names and the pair of them would have no single topic in common but the weather or the war (if there happened to be a war in progress, which is usual in this barbaric age).
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To Know Only One Thing Well Is

Robert Graves
To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central humane system of thought. the present age is peculiarly barbaric: introduce, say, a hebrew scholar to an ichthyologist or an authority on danish place names and the pair of them would have no single topic in common but the weather or the war (if there happened to be a war in progress, which is usual in this barbaric age).
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