Sometimes Aristotle Analyses His Terms, But Very

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

The Life And Liberty And Property And Happiness Of The Common Man Throughout The World Are At The Absolute Mercy Of A Few Persons Whom He Has Never Seen, Involved In Complicated Quarrels That He Has Never Heard Of.

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.

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

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.