首页
登录
职称英语
Technology of the Intellectual Life It is curi
Technology of the Intellectual Life It is curi
游客
2023-11-23
54
管理
问题
Technology of the Intellectual Life
It is curious to note how slowly the mechanism of the intellectual life improves. Contrast the ordinary library facilities of a middle-class English home, such as the present writer is now working in, with the inconvenience and deficiencies of the equipment of an Alexandrian writer, and one realizes the enormous waste of time, physical exertion, and attention that went on through all the centuries during which that library flourished. Before the present writer lies half a dozen books, and there are good indices to three of them. He can pick up any one of these six books, refer quickly to a statement, verify a quotation, and go on writing. Contrast with that the tedious unfolding of a rolled manuscript. Close at hand are two encyclopedias, a dictionary, an atlas of the world, a biographical dictionary, and other books of reference. They have no marginal indices, it is true; but that, perhaps, is asking too much at present. There were no such resources in the world in 300 B. C. Alexandria had still to produce the first grammar and the first dictionary. This present book is being written in manuscript; it is then taken by a typist and typewritten very accurately. It can then, with the utmost convenience, be read over, corrected amply, rearranged freely, retyped, and recorrected. The Alexandrian author had to dictate or recopy every word he wrote. Before he could turn back to what he had written previously, he had to dry his last words by waving them in the air or pouring sand over them; he had not even blotting-paper. Whatever an author wrote had to be recopied again and again before it could reach any considerable circle of readers, and every copyist introduced some new error. New books were dictated to a roomful of copyists, and so issued in a first edition of some hundreds at least. In Rome, Horace and Virgil seem to have been issued in quite considerable editions. Whenever a need for maps or diagrams arose, there were fresh difficulties. Such a science as anatomy, for example, depending as it does upon accurate drawing, must have been enormously hampered by the natural limitations of the copyist. The transmission of geographical fact again must have been almost incredibly tedious. No doubt a day will come when a private library and writing desk of the year A. D. 1925 will seem quaintly clumsy and difficult; but, measured by the standards of Alexandria, they are surprisingly quick, efficient, and economical of nervous and mental energy. [br] The best title for this passage might be _________.
选项
A、The Difficulties of Alexandrian Writers
B、The Advantages of Present Day (1925s) Writers
C、The Advance of Writing and Publishing Since Alexandrian Times
D、The Inadequacies of Ancient and Modern Times
答案
C
解析
转载请注明原文地址:http://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3212462.html
相关试题推荐
TheCloningTechnologyI.Thedifferencebetweena【T1】______colonyand【T1】___
TheCloningTechnologyI.Thedifferencebetweena【T1】______colonyand【T1】___
TheCloningTechnologyI.Thedifferencebetweena【T1】______colonyand【T1】___
TheCloningTechnologyI.Thedifferencebetweena【T1】______colonyand【T1】___
TheCloningTechnologyI.Thedifferencebetweena【T1】______colonyand【T1】___
TheCloningTechnologyI.Thedifferencebetweena【T1】______colonyand【T1】___
TheCloningTechnologyI.Thedifferencebetweena【T1】______colonyand【T1】___
TheCloningTechnologyI.Thedifferencebetweena【T1】______colonyand【T1】___
TheCloningTechnologyI.Thedifferencebetweena【T1】______colonyand【T1】___
Therapidlydevelopingtechnologydisturbstherelationshipbetweenparents
随机试题
EnthusiasmforPetsPetsarean【T1】______partofmanyBritishfamilies.
LeviStrausswasborninGermany,and【C1】______toAmericawhenyoung.In185
Completetheformbelow.WriteNOMORETHANTWOWORDSAND/ORANUMBERfo
[originaltext]Therewasasurprisingfinishtothisyear’sMissUniverseco
判断下列各图所示体系的几何构造性质为: A.几何不变无多余约束 B.几何不变
张先生,公务员,身高175cm,体重85kg,腹围92cm,既往高血压病史15年
OSI参考模型将网络体系结构划分为七层,其中()的主要功能是将网络地址翻译成对
OSAS最常见的三个阻塞层面是A.鼻和鼻咽、口咽和舌根、气管 B.鼻和鼻咽、口
苏大夫本名苏金散,民国初年在小白楼一带,开所行医,正骨拿踝,天津卫挂头牌,连洋人
与发行股票相比,发行债券融资的优点是( )。A.企业财务负担小 B.企业经营
最新回复
(
0
)