damental conception of life as the
Greeks looked at it; their view of
reverence, worship, law, obligation,
subordination, personality. No one
can be said to have read these poems
in any real sense until he has made
these ideas clear to himself; and these
ideas carry with them a definite en-
largement of thought. When a man
has gotten a clear view of the ideas
about life held by a great race, he has
gone a long way towards self-educa-
tion, -- so rich and illuminative are
these central conceptions around which
the life of each race has been organ-
ised. To multiply these ideas by
broad contact with the books of life is
to expand one's thought so as to com-
pass the essential thought of the en-
tire race. And this is precisely what
the man of broad culture accom-
plishes; he emancipates himself from

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