Those who study political philosophy must understand Sir Thomas More's Utopia; those studying modern literature must read Eliot's "The Wasteland"; Toynbee's A Study of History provided a comprehensive ordering of the world's civilizations; Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations set the principles for the development of modern economics ....
攻讀政治哲學的人，不能不懂湯瑪斯．摩爾的「烏托邦」；念現代文學的人，不能不看艾略特的「荒原」；湯恩比的「歷史研究」對全世界文明做了綜觀性整理；而亞當．史密斯的「國富論」則左右了近代經濟的發展… …