It Is Doubtless One Of Aristotle's Great

It Is Doubtless One Of Aristotle's Great Services That He Conceived So Clearly The Truth That Literature Is A Thing That Grows And Has A History.

Where Words Can Be Translated Into Equivalent Words, The Style Of An Original Can Be Closely Followed; But No Translation Which Aims At Being Written In Normal English Can Reproduce The Style Of Aristotle.

Sometimes Aristotle Analyses His Terms, But Very Often He Takes Them For Granted; And In The Latter Case, I Think, He Is Sometimes Deceived By Them.

The Fact Is That Much Misunderstanding Is Often Caused By Our Modern Attempts To Limit Too Strictly The Meaning Of A Greek Word.

Greek Was Very Much A Live Language, And A Language Still Unconscious Of Grammar, Not, Like Ours, Dominated By Definitions And Trained Upon Dictionaries.