Marriage, like religion and erudition, nay, like authorship itself, was fated to become an outward requirement, and Edward Casaubon was bent on fulfilling unimpeachably all requirements.
There is no denying the fact that Mr. Liang owed his wide erudition and unusual literary talent, for the most part, to his good grasp of foundation knowledge.
If the reader finishes a text with greater knowledge, erudition, and confidence in his world view than he had upon starting it, then literary analysis has fulfilled its most essential role.
Was I not yesterday on the point of ordering a huge work of erudition, which I should certainly never have read through, and which would only have served to waste precious days?
I admire him because there was, in addition to deep erudition, there was just a comfort with who he was at some point that was incredible, and I often don't see that mix.
Curiously enough he found in senior year that he had acquired a position in his class. He learned that he was looked upon as a rather romantic figure, a scholar, a recluse, a tower of erudition.