吳爾芙寫道:
"We must ask you... not to appear on
public platforms; not to lecture; not
to allow your private face to be
published, or details of your private
life; not to avail yourself, in short,
of any of the forms of brain prostitution
which are so insidiously suggested
by the pimps and panders of the
brain-selling trade; or to accept any
of those baubles and lables by
which brain merit is advertised and
certified-- medals, honours, degrees
-- we must ask you to refuse them
absolutely, since they are all tokens
that culture has been prostituted and
intellectual liberty sold into captivity."
