use Mr. La Farge's phrase, the co-@
ordination of innumerable memories,
-- memories shared by an innumera-
ble company of persons, and becoming,
at length and after long clarification, a
kind of race memory; and this mem-
ory is so inclusive and tenacious that
it holds intact the long and varied
play of soil, sky, scenery, climate,
faith, myth, suffering, action, historic
process, through which the race has
passed and by which it has been
largely formed.

The ideas which underlie the great
books bring with them, therefore,
when we really receive them into our
minds, the entire background of the
life out of which they took their rise.
We are not only permitted to refresh
ourselves at the inexhaustible spring,
but, as we drink, the entire sweep of
landscape, to the remotest mountains

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