Staid men and good scholars at first expressed mirth and then indignation at the audacity that baptised this gay rag bag English Literature, then Philosophy of History, then Human Culture.

• 持重的人和渊博的学者起初看了觉得好笑，继而勃然大怒，说我居然敢把那些破布烂絮--美其名曰英国文学、历史哲学、人类文化。