If Laski was not, in any ordinary sense of the word, a politician, he was also no thinker. He had an unbounded verve and versatility in the acquisition of knowledge. But, where he skimmed everything, he never plunged deep. The extent of his reading was colossal, even if one assures that he did not more than turn the pages of some of the works which he mentions.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "If Laski was not, in any ordinary sense of the word, a politician, he was also no thinker. He had an unbounded verve and versatility in the acquisition of knowledge. But, where he skimmed everything, he never plunged deep. The extent of his reading was colossal, even if one assures that he did not more than turn the pages of some of the works which he mentions." in the context of "E. H. Carr, "Harold Laski" (1953), published in From Napoleon to Stalin and Other Essays (1980)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.