| Page | |
|---|---|
| The "organisation of scientific labour" | 135 |
| The harshness of judgment attributed to scholars, not always rightly—Much of it a proper jealousy for historic truth—Bad work nowadays soon detected | 136 |
| SECTION II.—INTERNAL CRITICISM | |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| INTERPRETATIVE CRITICISM (HERMENEUTIC) | |
| Internal criticism deals with the mental operations which begin with the observation of a fact and end with the writing of words in a document—It is divided into two stages: the first concerned with what the author meant, the second with the value of his statements | 141 |
| Necessity of separating the two operations—Danger of reading opinions into a text | 143 |
| The analysis of documents—The method of slips—Completeness necessary | 145 |
| Necessity of linguistic study—General knowledge of a language not enough—Particular variety of a language as used at a given time, in a given country, by a given author—The rule of context | 146 |
| Different degrees of difficulty in interpretation | 149 |
| Oblique senses: allegory, metaphor, &c.—How to detect them—Former tendency to find symbolism everywhere—Modern tendency to find allusion everywhere | 151 |
| Results of interpretation—Subjective inquiries | 153 |
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