His interests ranged everywhere and all his investigations were recorded in the faultless draughtsmanship that makes his surviving notebooks so interesting. 他的興趣包羅萬象，他所有的研究都以完美尤缺的草圖形式記錄了下來，這使得他留下的它記趣味盎然。
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. 他們擁有金碧輝煌的聖殿，但是祭司隊伍不再是過去世界那些城市裡傳統意義上的龐大團體，他們既不是包羅萬象的知識寶庫，也不是什麼思想觀點的載體。
