Sometimes Aristotle Analyses His Terms, But Very

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

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

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.

The Fashions Of The Ages Vary In This Direction And That, But They Vary For The Most Part From A Central Road Which Was Struck Out By The Imagination Of Greece.

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.