25 MARCH 1922, Page 15

"1111, MIND IS THE MAN."

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—A much earlier statement of this position than any of those which you have quoted is to be found in Aristotle's Ethics, Book X., Chapter 7. Aristotle is maintaining that intellectual activity is higher than moral or practical activities, because intellect or mind (robs) is the highest part of man. He says : "It is this, indeed, which each man really is, since it is the ruling and better part of him," and later, " The intellectual life is highest and most pleasurable since this, i.e., mind, is in a special sense the man " (arcs Terre p.aurra elvOixores).