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Excerpt from The Function of the Leader in Scholarship: An Address Delivered After the Initiation of New Members, May 30, 1911
Saint Paul's application of the fable is doubtless the most familiar case of all; possibly there is no instance in literature of a figure which has taken a more vital hold upon the imagination of mankind. Yet, so far as I am aware, the notion of corporate service as expressed in the organic comparison has never been so frequently employed as toward the end of the Middle Ages by certain political theorists, who enlarged upon it with an ingenuity almost more than Shakespearean. To take an example from John of Salisbury, who is typical.
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