They may have reacted radically from the didactic teaching of both writers, but they have not lost the impulse, nor have they parted with the enlargement of thought received in those first rapturous hours of discovery.

There was wrought in them then changes of view, expansions of nature, a liberation of life which can never be lost.

This experience is repeated so long as the man retains the power of growth and so long as he keeps in contact with the great writers.

Every such contact marks a new stage in the process of culture.

This means not merely the deep satisfaction and delight which are involved in every fresh contact with a genuine work of art; it means the permanent enrichment of the reader.