It depends on how far the process had gone, of transmuting life into truth. In portion to the completeness of the distillation, so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be. But none is quite perfect. As no air-pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write a book of pure thought that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the (1)age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books; (2) , each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. 1. (A) first　(B) last　(C) second　(D) third 2. (A) for example　(B) however　(C) or rather　(D) to boot 答案皆为C 想请问这边The second age怎麽判断 还有第二题 这边or rather 的作用是什麽? 感谢回答 ^^ --

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