Word: arrantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pursuit which is not fostered to any appreciable extent by overt "recognition", that it can thrive lustily even though accompanied by something less than a fanfare of trumphets. Scholarship--not to put too fine a point upon it--is like virtue, its own reward. This may sound like arrant sentimentality: it is the soberest truth. The real stimulus to the life of study is not, of course, the applause of the market place but one's own unquenchable thirst for knowledge, one's love of ideas for their own sake. Only those who, however humbly, have swung their oars...