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拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生:随笔·摘录 7

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Or, I might say, it depends on how far the process had gone, of transmuting life into truth. In proportion to the completeness of the distillation, so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be. But none is quite perfect. As no air-pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum,[16] so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.

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定位:Excerpt 7 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

爱默生说,书的价值取决于“把生活转化为真理”这个过程走了多远。蒸馏得越彻底,产品就越纯净、越不朽。但没有一本书是完美的。就像抽气机无法造出完美真空,艺术家也无法完全排除书中的陈规、地方性和易朽成分,写出纯粹思想的书,让遥远后代和同时代人一样受用。每个时代都必须写自己的书,或者为下一代写。旧时代的书不适合新时代。核心是:书都有时代局限,每个时代需要自己的书。做法是:读旧书时警惕其局限,并创造属于自己时代的表达。

上下文

爱默生《论学者》中论书籍的局限性和时代性,强调每个时代需要自己的书。

健康板块的原文与白话解读仅供阅读学习,不构成医疗建议。

今日一问

你是在读旧时代的书,还是在写自己时代的书?

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