I soon observed that all these authors nearly always contradicted each other, and I conceived the fanciful idea of reconciling them, which fatigued me greatly, and made me lose considerable time.

• 不久以后，我发现所有这些作者几乎总是相互否定，我构思着，想要把他们的思想统一，好玄没把我给累死！而且浪费了我相当多的时间。