Sometimes Aristotle Analyses His Terms, But Very

The Average Beast Of Prey Is A Decent Creature Who Merely Kills For The Sake Of Food Or In A Fight Against An Enemy. It Is Only Man Who Calls Killing "sport" And Kills For The Pleasure Of Killing; Not For Food, Not For Self-defense, But Just To Satisfy Some Primitive Instinct, Once Necessary And Now Perverted.

Sometimes Aristotle Analyses His Terms, But Very Often He Takes Them For Granted; And In The Latter Case, I Think, He Is Sometimes Deceived By Them.

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.

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

Few Of The Great Works Of Ancient Greek Literature Are Easy Reading.