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I grant you that the 47 men who produced the Authorised Version worked in the main upon Tyndale’s version, taking that for their basis . . . But when Tyndale has been granted, you have yet to face the miracle that forty seven men – not one of them known outside this performance, for any superlative talent – sat in committee, and almost consistently over a vast extent of work – improved what genius had done. I give you the word of an old committeeman that this is not the way of committees.
taken from:
The Art of Writing Lecture VI
