A One Sided Autobiography Containing the Story of My Intellectual Life
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For some reason or other the application of this principle to literature long ago appealed to me, and increased greatly the pleasure of reading. I felt that I could enjoy a book in itself, and at the same time have a larger feel- ing of pleasure in the thought that the book, if a worthy one, was adding its own contribu- tion to the field of knowledge of which it formed a part. And so I came to see that the history of all literature was made up of the constant interplay of a multitude of influ- ...ences, which were themselves but the expres- sion of the inner and outer life of all times and all nations. Sometimes this influence shows itself in a single book, and who can overestimate such an influence in the case of Homer and Vergil, or even of such books as Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, or the Amadis de Gaula, which, in the French trans- lation of Herbart des Essarts, was practically 58 INTELLECTUAL IDEALS the origin of the modem novel? Again this influence shows itself not so much in one single book, but, rather, in the whole life and character of an author.
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