to enter into the thought of the un-
known poets who made their contri-
butions to the myth, but must also
be able to disentangle the threads of
idea and feeling so deftly woven to-
gether, and follow each back to its
shadowy beginning. To do this, one
must have not only knowledge, but
sympathy and imagination, -- those
closely related qualities which get at
the soul of knowledge and make it
live again; those qualities which the
man of culture shares in no small
measure with the man of genius. In
his studies of such myths as those
which gather about Dionysus and
Demeter this is precisely what Mr.
Pater did. He not only marked out
distinctly the courses of the main
streams, but he followed back the
rivulets to their fountain-heads; he
not only mastered the thought of an

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