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What Sprat means when he speaks of Histories produced by Royal Society members, like his own History of the Royal Society, is “accounts” or “observations,” not historical research in the way that we understand it. ”15) “Scholemen,” Sprat says, do not converse with the world; they are “privateWriters,” whereas the Royal Society offers “Public Registers” of everything they do: By their fair, and equal, and submissive way of Registering nothing, but Histories, and Relations; they have left room for others, that shall succeed, to change, to augment, to approve, to contradict them, 16 Language by the Book at their discretion.

I would wager that most professors, graduate students, and adjuncts in literary and cultural 38 Language by the Book studies believe Baldick’s statement to be true about non-humanists in general, both within the academy and without. Since these are fighting words, I want to give at least one “proof,” though I’m certain that the view is pervasive in print humanities professors’ discussions: literary and cultural studies critics believe that people are enmired in ideology, and truly, only we know the way out.

I mentioned the literary and cultural studies critics 41 Breaking the Book who value ordinary language as an analytic tool, and name a few of them whom I have observed doing so: Deidre Lynch, Alan Liu, Michael Warner, and Frances Dolan—any cultural studies critic who makes use of our customary ways of speaking in order to situate themselves, their own current beliefs and ideas, inside the analysis they perform, to demonstrate its motivations. This deliberate use of anachronism is discussed again in Conclusion.

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