Excerpt from The Writer, 1898, Vol. 11: A Monthly Magazine for Literary Workers
The right vocabulary! Translators have not invariably seen how all-important that is in the work of translation, driving for the most part at idiom or construction: whereas, if the orig inal be first-rate, one's first care should be with its elementary particles, Plato, for instance, being often reproducible by an exact following, with no variation in structure, of word after word, as the pencil follows a drawing under tracing paper, so only each word or syllable be not of false color, to change my illustration a little.
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