We have in our republic of letters too many scholars whose abstract coolness is due largely to their lack of belief in what they have chosen to study, and I feel that the scholar cannot adequately portray what [she] does not love with all the fibers of [her] being (and even a ‘hating love’ would be better than indifference).

—Leo Spitzer, Classical and Christian Ideas of World Harmony. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1963. p. 4.