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The death of Sir Frederick Pollock reminds us how fast the world is moving from the idea of general culture. ‘ The Times ’ tells us that he habitu-. ally wrote verse in Latin, Greek, French, German, and Italian, besides being acquainted with Persian and Sanskrit, and that he was “ well read in philosophy and a respectable mathematician ’’ —all in addition to that profound study of the Law which was his life-work. He was almost a survival of that era when the sciences had not all retired into their own corners and a man might still be in touch with all the main branches of knowledge. It would be interesting to fix the time (probably towards the end of the eighteenth century) when that wide comprehension became impossible, and the world began to be divided between experts and smatterers. It is a step we cannot trace.— 1 Observer.’
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Evening Star, Issue 22596, 13 March 1937, Page 2
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