but it would not possess that quality
of universality which makes it the
property of the race. In Shakespeare
there was not only knowledge of man,
but knowledge of men as well. His
greatness rests not only on his own
commanding personality, but on his
magical power of laying other person-
alities under tribute for the enlarge-
ment of his view of things and the
enrichment of his portraiture of hu-
manity. A man learns much from
his own contacts with his time and his
race, but one of the most important
gains he makes is the development of
the faculty of appropriating the re-
sults of the contacts of other men with
other times and races; and one of the
finer qualities of rich experience is
the quickening of the imagination to
divine that which is hidden in the
experience of other races and ages.

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