But that's the way with young specialists.

They want to become masters in the workshops of their sciences as a shoemaker learns to fashion boots.

Other things are of small importance to them; and yet the special discipline first gains value in connection with the rest or the wider province of the allied sciences.

Your deciphering of hieroglyphics can only make you a dragoman, and you must become a scholar in the higher sense, a real and thorough one.

The first step is to lay the linguistic foundation." This was said with the engaging yet impressively earnest frankness characteristic of him.