ABSTRACT
One other name remains … the greatest, from the scholar’s point of view, of all our names, one who, with an outlook quite as wide as that of the very best of the Germans, unites a commanding scholarship, a keen and subtle penetration, and an exactness in the handling of details, superior to anything which their theologians have to show; but he sits apart, like Achilles in his tent, and whether it be from fastidiousness, or whether it be from weakness of health … which forbids him to face the effort of composition, he lets the precious days pass by and will not go down into the battle. We must not complain, because he has already given us so much; but it is only the tenth part of what he might give us.1
