Shakespearian plays and sonnets which
make a riot in the blood to-day as they
doubtless set the poet's pulses beating
three centuries ago. The student of
literature, therefore, finds in its noblest
works not only the ultimate results of
race experience and the characteristic
quality of race genius, but the highest
activity of the greatest minds in their
happiest and most expansive moments.
In this commingling of the best that
is in the race and the best that is in
the individual lies the mystery of that
double revelation which makes every
work of art a disclosure not only of
the nature of the man behind it, but
of all men behind him. In this com-
mingling, too, is preserved the most
precious deposit of what the race has
been and done, and of what the man
has seen, felt, and known. In the
nature of things no educational mate-

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