nal investigator. Text-books supply
methods, information, and discipline;
teachers impart the breath of life by
giving us inspiration and impulse.
Now, the great books are different
from all other books in their posses-
sion of this mysterious vital force;
they are not only text-books by reason
of the knowledge they contain, but
they are also books of life by reason
of the disclosure of personality which
they make. The student of "Faust"
receives from that drama not only
the poet's interpretation of man's life
in the world, but he is also brought
under the spell of Goethe's personality,
and, in a real sense, gets from his book
that which his friends got from the
man. This is not true of secondary
books; it is true only of first-hand
books. Secondary books are often
products of skill, pieces of well-

was> man. This in not true of secondary
now> man. This is not true of secondary

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