power of awakening, stimulating, and
enriching it in the highest degree.
For the genuine reader, who sees in a
book what the writer has put there,
repeats in a way the process through
which the maker of the book passed.
The man who reads the "Iliad" and
the "Odyssey" with his heart as well
as his intelligence must measurably
enter into the life which these poems
describe and interpret; he must iden-
tify himself for the time with the race
whose soul and historic character are
revealed in epic form as in a great
mirror; he must see life from the
Greek point of view, and feel life as
the Greek felt it. He must, in a
word, go through the process by
which the poems were made, as well
as feel, comprehend, and enjoy their
final perfection. In like manner the
open-hearted and open-minded reader

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