over a wider world of feeling and knowl- 

 edge than the Greek ever saw within the 

 horizon of his experience ; but the Greek, 

 like the Hebrew, will remain to the latest 

 generation among the great teachers of 

 men. He was born into the first rank 

 among nations ; he had an eye quick to 

 see, a mind clear, open, and bold to grasp 

 facts, set them in order, and generalise 

 their law ; an instinct for art that turned all 

 his observation and thinking into literature. 

 Whether he looked at the world about him 

 or fixed his gaze upon his own nature, his 

 insight was from the very beginning so 

 direct, so commanding, so perfectly allied 

 with beauty, that his speculations became 

 philosophy and his emotions poetry. There 

 was hardly any aspect of life which he did 

 not see, no question which he did not ask, 

 and few which he failed to answer with 

 more or less of truth. He walked through 

 an untrodden world of sights and sounds, 

 and reproduced the vast circle of his life in 

 a literature to which men will look as long 

 as the world stands for models of sweetness, 

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