the reader who has the trained vision
has the constant joy of discovery:
first, of beauty and power; next, of
that concrete or vital form of truth
which is one with life. One who
studies books is in constant peril of
losing the charm of the first by per-
mitting himself to be absorbed in
the interest of the second discovery.
When one has begun to see the range
and veracity of literature as a disclos-
ure of the soul and life of man, the
definite literary quality sometimes
becomes of secondary importance.
In academic teaching the study of
philology, of grammar, of construc-
tion, of literary history, has often
been mistaken or substituted for the
study of literature; and in private
study the peculiar enrichment which
comes from art simply as art is often
needlessly sacrificed by exclusive at-

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