“very translator ought to regard himself as a broker in the great intellectual 
traffic of the world, and to consider it his business to promote the barter of the pro- 
duce of mind. For, whatever people may say of the inadequacy of translation, it is, 
and must ever be, one of the most important and meritorious occupations in the great 
commerce of the human race.’’—Gosthe, Kunst und Alterthum, 
