“He was above all a popularizer, and he gloried in it. He was one of the main channels by which certain ideas entered the modern world, and his originality was in the blending of these ideas. His talent was for synthesis...it is not in any ordinary sense that he can be called an original thinker, but he was far too great to be a mere imitator or vulgarizer.”
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