talker half-way, and to fill in the out-
lines of a picture so swiftly and skil-
fully sketched. When I went to the
play I went as a contemporary of its
writer might have gone. I did not
need to enter into it, for it had already
entered into me. A man of scholar-
ship could have set the period before
me in a mass of facts; a man of cul-
ture alone could give me power to
share, for an evening at least, its spirit
and life.

These personal illustrations will be
pardoned, because they bring out in
the most concrete way that special
quality which marks the possession
of culture in the deepest sense. That
quality allies it very closely with genius
itself, in certain aspects of that rare
and inexplicable gift. For one of the
most characteristic qualities of genius
is its power of divination, of sharing

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