ARISTOTLE AS A BIOLOGIST 31 



Sometimes, as to-day, it brings us by a by-way to the 

 study of the history of human thought and knowledge, 

 and introduces us to a company of great men, dwellers 

 in the ' clear air ' of Athens. 



The little Greek I know, first learnt at my Father's 

 knee, is but a child's plaything to that of many a scholar 

 here. But I hear, now and then, a welcome given, in 

 old Hellenic speech, to men who call at that Interpreter's 

 House wherein Plato and Aristotle show us ' excellent 

 things, such as will be a help to us in our journey '. 



