喪失

解説

付記

ここに眠るはハンティントン。 彼を失ったことこそ我らの永遠の利益。 なぜなら、彼が力を尽くせば尽くすほど―― 失うのは常に我々だったから。

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Original

Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his election"; and of that eminent man, the poet Gilder, that he has "lost his mind." It is in the former and more legitimate sense, that the word is used in the famous epitaph:

Additional notes

Here Huntington's ashes long have lain Whose loss is our eternal gain, For while he exercised all his powers Whatever he gained, the loss was ours.