Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius would overstock the world, and the mind would be completely bewildered in the endless mazes of literature.
Washington Irving, “The Mutabilities of Literature” in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819 – 20).
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Eh, were that claim true, then translation would already have brought us to ruin.
I submit that Sturgeon’s Revelation explains why we are not drowning in works of genius. Note that Sturgeon only identified a lower bound.