Summary Conviction

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    Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.
    Walter Pater (1839–1894)

    Every man’s task is his life-preserver. The conviction that his work is dear to God and cannot be spared, defends him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)