He was philharmonic and liked philology.
他爱好音乐并喜欢语言学。
What I here mean by philology is, in a general sense, the art of reading with profit—the capacity for absorbing facts without interpreting them falsely, and without losing caution, patience and subtlety in the effort to understand them.
我在这里所说的语文学,在一般意上是指阅读的艺术——能够吸收事实而不错误地解释它们,并且在努力理解它们的过程中不会失去谨慎、耐心和敏锐的能力。