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eliot-romola-1863	eliot	eliot-romola-1863	1863		.txt	text/plain	229557	8678	72	For why is a young man like Poliziano (who was not yet born when I was already held worthy to maintain a discussion with Thomas of Sarzana) to have a glorious memory as a commentator on the Pandectswhy is Ficino, whose Latin is an offence to me, and who wanders purblind among the superstitious fancies that marked the decline at once of art, literature, and philosophy, to descend to posterity as the very high priest of Platonism, while I, who am more than their equal, have not effected anything but scattered work, which will be appropriated by other men? Perdio, I have no affection for them, said Tito, with a shrug; servitude agrees well with a religion like theirs, which lies in the renunciation of all that makes life precious to other men.	cache/eliot-romola-1863.txt	txt/eliot-romola-1863.txt