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His careful mastery of the historian ’ s craft , his massive bibliographical knowledge , his clarity of style and civility of approach-all these serve to answer his own complaints about the “ scandal of the evangelical mind . Our job is to transform high school graduates into people who can formulate a genuinely original and challenging research question , who can then investigate that question against a background of both disciplinary mastery and methodological diversity , and who can open their minds to the possibility of inspiration . His encyclopedic knowledge of Cervantes studies , extensive editorial experience , and consummate mastery of technology ideally qualify him to lead the journal into the next millennium . And Nietzsche 's pessimism is his conclusion that nothing can be done with it , except for a possible aesthetic mastery . " This plan operates in such manner that the student secures a thorough grounding in each of the several departments of learning and at the same time obtains a reasonable mastery of at least two fields of study . " They reveal — especially in their fluid washes — the consummate mastery of the medium that Homer had achieved by this point in his career .