other words, culture had wrought its
perfect work, and the man had passed
through wide and intensely self-con-
scious activity into the repose and
simplicity of self-unconsciousness; his
knowledge had become so completely
a part of himself that he had ceased
to be conscious of it as a thing dis-
tinct from himself. There is no easy
road to this last height in the long and
painful process of education; and time
is an essential element in the process,
because it is a matter of growth.

There are, it is true, a few men and
women who seem born with this
power of living in the heart of things
and possessing them in the imagina-
tion without having gone through the
long and painful stages of preparatory
education; but genius is not only in-
explicable, it is also so rare that for
the immense majority of men any ef-

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