His interests ranged everywhere and all his investigations were recorded in the faultless draughtsmanship that makes his surviving notebooks so interesting. 他的兴趣包罗万象，他所有的研究都以完美尤缺的草图形式记录了下来，这使得他留下的它记趣味盎然。
They had splendid temples but the priesthood was not the great traditional body it was in the cities of the older world, the repository of all knowledge, the storehouse of ideas. 他们拥有金碧辉煌的圣殿，但是祭司队伍不再是过去世界那些城市里传统意义上的庞大团体，他们既不是包罗万象的知识宝库，也不是什么思想观点的载体。
