25 FEBRUARY 1922, Page 13

"THE MIND IS THE MAN."

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In your first notice of Death and Its Mystery you ask if any reader can say who was the first person to use this admirable, if somewhat obvious, aphorism. Cromwell was quoting when he used the words; Isaac Watts was quoting when he said, "The mind's the standard of the man." Both perhaps used the words of Ovid, "It is the mind that makes the man." I cannot trace the utterance to any Greek. You can give Bartlett credit for this information.—I am, Sir. &c.,

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