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Four Phases of Morals

Note 173.1 — FOOTNOTES.

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It is interesting here to observe how Aristotle, concurring with Homer (Od. xiii. 289), makes the distinction, unquestionably just, through the neglect of which Burke fell into his notable error that beautiful things are always small. He ought to have known that there is the same distinction between beautiful and pretty in English, as between καλός and ἀστεῖος in Greek.

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