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grbs-9141	Huxley, George	Aristotle as Antiquary	1973	16	.pdf	application/pdf	6932	303	65	In this respect Aristotle works in much the same way as any his­ torian of our own time investigating early Greek history; an illumin­ ating passage from a novel by Miss Iris Murdoch perfectly conveys the intellectual challenge to the historian and the importance of an Aristotelian concern for detail: There are certain areas of scholarship, early Greek history is one and Roman law is another, where the scanti­ ness of evidence sets a special challenge to the disciplined mind. According to Aristotle Samos had been an empty waste until the enormous beasts invaded the island.7	cache/grbs-9141.pdf	txt/grbs-9141.txt