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GENERAL IMPRESSION OF HIS LIFE.
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We cannot expect to know more than the outline of Aristotle’s life, but all we know gives us the impression of a life that, morally speaking, was singularly honourable and blameless. And it was the life of one who by his intellectual achievements placed himself at the very head of ancient thought, and won the admiration and allegiance of many centuries. What those intellectual achievements were we have now to endeavour to set forth.
