Furthermore it would seem that the study of the great books or great thinkers of the past can easily degenerate into a kind of antiquarianism into a sort of pedantry.

更甚之，研究这些巨著或，过往的伟大思想家，更可能轻易地降格为古物癖，或是卖弄学问。

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Furthermore it would seem that the study of the great books or great thinkers of the past can easily degenerate into a kind of antiquarianism into a sort of pedantry.

更甚之,研究这些巨著或,过往的伟大思想家,更可能轻易地降格为古物癖,或是卖弄学问。

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He finds, for example, a sadness for the vanished Catholic past lurking in the keen antiquarianism and the almost obsessive rediscovery of old modes of expression.

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