It's impossible to translate this exactly, you'll never fully appreciate the piece.
这篇文章不可能准确翻译,所以你也许永远不可能好地阅读它。
Libraries made education possible, and education in its turn added to libraries: the growth of knowledge followed a kind of compound interest law, which was greatly enhanced by the invention of printing.
藏书使教育成为可能,而教育反过来又丰富了藏书,因为知识的增长遵循着一种“滚雪球”的规律。印刷术的发明又大大提高了知识增长的速度。