Seeley was witty, charming, sympathetic, entirely void of self importance, never making ignorance an excuse for sarcasm, and under his presidency there was a great deal of serious thought given to politics in the higher sense; though pupils were often too shy to talk in the seminar itself, they did talk afterwards among themselves on the subjects there discussed.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Seeley was witty, charming, sympathetic, entirely void of self importance, never making ignorance an excuse for sarcasm, and under his presidency there was a great deal of serious thought given to politics in the higher sense; though pupils were often too shy to talk in the seminar itself, they did talk afterwards among themselves on the subjects there discussed." in the context of "A Cambridge student of Seeley, quoted in Sheldon Rothblatt, The Revolution of the Dons: Cambridge and Society in Victorian England (1968), p. 180" to mean that wisdom is timeless.