On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 05:44:36PM -0500, David Merrill wrote: [...]
Exactly right, and you have to watch even some more recent texts, for example Shakespeare. Unfortunately that means we miss out on some more modern scholarship, but there's no way around that except to wait for copyright to expire.
There is a way: do that same scholarship ourselves and encourage academic scholars to un-restrict their work. ;-)