There is a true scholarship, but there is also a pseudo-scholarship. There is the scholarship that is an essential part of the cultivated man who has made himself the intellectual master of some subject of broad, human interest. There is the other kind of scholarship that satisfies itself with the minutiae of scientific research in literature or history, that dissects some unimportant subdivision of a subject, and that demands of its students anything but a human interest in it, in the field of true scholarship, publication is a gift to the civilization of the time. In the other field: very little of what is published has any permanent value at all. --Yale Alumni Weekly
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