Place...before your eyes, such a man as Montesquieu. Think of a genius not born in every country, or every time; a man gifted by nature with a penetrating aquiline eye; with a judgment prepared with the most extensive erudition; with an herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour; a man who could spend twenty years in one pursuit.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Place...before your eyes, such a man as Montesquieu. Think of a genius not born in every country, or every time; a man gifted by nature with a penetrating aquiline eye; with a judgment prepared with the most extensive erudition; with an herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour; a man who could spend twenty years in one pursuit." in the context of "Edmund Burke, An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), quoted in Edmund Burke, Further Reflections on the French Revolution, ed. Daniel E. Ritchie (1992), p. 198" to mean that wisdom is timeless.