Gloria: A Novel (Classic Reprint)

PREFACE In making its final volume consist of the Rhetoric and the Poetics (together with the RJietoTicci cid Alexciudriun-a minor tract of uncertain authorship), the Oxford Translation of Aristotle follows the usual order in which the collected Aristotelian works have come, by tradition, to be arranged. The two great, and most characteristic, treatises which deal with the art of Public Speaking and the art of Poetry bring the long and amazing procession of Aristotle's thought to a fitting close. Language, as the instrument of thought and feeling, is the theme they have in common ; language in its workaday and its loftiest uses; language which, as the opening chapter of the RJietoric sets forth, is the distinctive attribute of man and his best weapon in upholding truth and justice. In the last two words of the Poetics as it has come down to us, we may fancy that we hear Aristotle quietly taking leave of all the science, the logic, the metaphysics, and the political and moral wisdom t

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