Note 14 — Chapter XII · THE PROFESSOR: AVIGNON (CONTINUED)
Bernard Miall translation
But no, beloved master! All was not over. The immortal work with which your name is connected was as yet to be begun. This ruin, this mortification, this grievous overthrow of all your hopes in connection with the University were even needed to lead you back to the fields, to enable you to raise, in all its amplitude and its exquisite originality, the scientific edifice of which you may say, with the ancient poet: Exegi monumentum aere perennis.14