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SCIENCE AND CULTURE 39 



ing makes an easy and assured progress in 

 the science he has studied. He has assimilated 

 the spirit of that sort of knowledge in such a 

 way that, henceforth, he finds himself at home 

 there. 



Now it is a characteristic of human nature, 

 that when several individuals have intercourse 

 with each other, they not only exchange from 

 without certain definite pieces of information 

 or methods of action, but, by a sort of internal 

 contagion from soul to soul and mind to mind 

 exert a reciprocal influence. "It is the peculiar 

 characteristic of mind," says Goethe, "t^ 

 arouse perpetually the activity of mind." 

 Dies ist die Eigenschaft des Geistes, dass er 

 den Geist ewig anregt. 



And that influence of one spirit upon an- 

 other, is much more certain and effectual, 

 when there is not only an exchange of intel- 

 lectual ideas, but a union of hearts. Who 

 knows, indeeed, whether that may not be an 

 indispensable condition? "It is impossible," 

 said Xenophon, "to learn anything from a 

 master one does not love": ^jnqhevl fjurj^eixLav 

 eivai Trdihevcriv irapa tov firj apicrKovro^;. 



