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less difficulty be translated into that tongue than it can now
be done. But unfortunately even such is not the case. For
nothing is extant of the ancient writings in the language of
Jesus from which St. Luke translated the angelic hymn; nor
has he himself left us another book in a Semitic dialect.
To make myself better understood, and in order to make
the English readers better appreciate the extreme importance
of this point, I venture to challenge the best scholar in English
and French literature to retranslate from a French edition
the dramatic work of Shakespeare into English without seeing
the original English text, and to show the grace and the
elegance of the original as well.
The great Muslim philosopher Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
be done. But unfortunately even such is not the case. For
nothing is extant of the ancient writings in the language of
Jesus from which St. Luke translated the angelic hymn; nor
has he himself left us another book in a Semitic dialect.
To make myself better understood, and in order to make
the English readers better appreciate the extreme importance
of this point, I venture to challenge the best scholar in English
and French literature to retranslate from a French edition
the dramatic work of Shakespeare into English without seeing
the original English text, and to show the grace and the
elegance of the original as well.
The great Muslim philosopher Ibn Sina (Avicenna)