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Philologists, when discussing their science, never get down to the root of the subject. they never set forth philology itself as a problem. Bad conscience? or merely thoughtlessness?
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We learn nothing from what philologists say about philology: it is all mere tittle-tattle—for example, Jahn’s6 “The Meaning and Place of the Study of Antiquity in Germany.” There is no feeling for what should be protected and defended: thus speak people who have not even thought of the possibility that any one could attack them.