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
7
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:https://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
[originaltext]Doyouhavetroublesleepingatnight?Thenmaybethisisfor
Intheearlytwentiethcentury,theideathatpianistsshouldbemusician-schola
[originaltext]M:Whattimedoesthemeetingstart?W:At8:30.Wehave15minu
骨髓穿刺取材作细胞学检查,抽吸骨髓液要求0.5ml。
拱坝是平面上凸向上游三向固定空间高次()。A.静定结构 B.瞬变结构
芍药汤与白头翁汤的组成中均含有的药物是A、黄芩 B、黄连 C、黄柏 D、大
暑邪的性质和致病特点是A.阻遏气机B.善行数变C.生风动血D.耗气伤津E.易伤阳
A.润肠B.呼吸抑制C.镇静催眠D.中枢兴奋E.抗血栓形成银杏叶的药理作用是
患者女,15岁。学生,主诉因为双肘、腕、手指近端指间关节肿痛3年,加重2个月,以
最新回复
(
0
)