Scholars seem to have lived in different ages, separated by centuries, and yet their modes of thinking and feeling were so akin that their coming together across the pages of a book was like a person finding his own image.

• 有许多学者似乎生活于不同的时代里，相距多年，然而他们思想的方法和他们的情感却那么相似，使人在一本书里读到他们的文字时，好象看见自己的肖像一样。