wrought but entirely self-conscious
craftsmanship; first-hand books are
always the expression of what is
deepest, most original and distinctive
in the nature which produces them.
In such books, therefore, we get not
only the skill, the art, the knowledge;
we get, above all, the man. There is
added to what he has to give us of
thought or form the inestimable boon
of his companionship.

The reality of this element of per-
sonality and the force for culture which
resides in it are clearly illustrated by
a comparison of the works of Plato
with those of Aristotle. Aristotle was
for many centuries the first name
in philosophy, and is still one of the
greatest; but Aristotle, although a
student of the principles of the art
of literature and a critic of deep phil-
osophical insight, was primarily a

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