To make it into museum object
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Can we say the phrase " to make it into museum object" in the following sentence means " to disable it or to make it valuable"?
" every philosophical school has its priests. it is their business ( the priest business) to administer the idea of the original thinker, to impart it, to interpret it, to make it into a museum object and thus to guard it."
"Prophets and Priests" an Essay by Erich Fromm
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MARS MILET Can we say the phrase " to make it into museum object" in the following sentence means " to disable it or to make it valuable"? I think you mean "to disable it " or " to make it valuable". I don't think it means either of those things, certainly not to disable it.
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MARS MILETCan we say the phrase " to make it into museum object" in the following sentence means " to disable it or to make it valuable"?
I think you mean "to disable it" or "to make it valuable".
I don't think it means either of those things, certainly not to disable it. Also, it is already assumed by the "priests" to be valuable, so there is
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