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This surplus of connotationthis which the species connotes over and above the connotation of the genusis the Differentia, or specific difference; or, to state the same proposition in other words, the Differentia is that which must be added to the connotation of the genus, to complete the connotation of the species.

It is, therefore, established that in every proposition, of which either substance or a differentia forms the predicate, these are predicated univocally. All substance appears to signify that which is individual. In the case of primary substance this is indisputably true, for the thing is a unit.

The difficulty about this definition is that, while it describes the matter of a good many dramas, it does not lay down any true differentia any characteristic common to all drama, and possessed by no other form of fiction. Many of the greatest plays in the world can with difficulty be brought under the formula, while the majority of romances and other stories come under it with ease.

Philosophic thinking has for its differentia the fact that the uncertainties with which it deals are found in widespread social conditions and aims, consisting in a conflict of organized interests and institutional claims.

There are, thus, really two classes of writers: I. Prose-Artists. II. Verse-Artists. Each of these splits up into two kinds, according as the writer has or lacks "soul." Or, if you think "soul" the more important differentia, we will say there are artists with "soul" and artists without "soul," and that some of each sort work in prose and some in verse.

So far, my reader, we do not of necessity start back from anything our author teaches us. Quite true, we think of matter, a kind of being which can do nothing of itself. Quite true, we think of spirit, a kind of being which can do. But remember here, I do not admit that in this point lies the differentia between matter and spirit.

Let us be moderate in all things, then, even in our references to the force of circumstances. Circumstances can unmake; but of themselves they never yet made man, nor any other form of life. The differentia of man the quality that marks him off from the other animal kinds is undoubtedly the power of articulate speech. Thereby his mind itself becomes articulate.

When we face the fact with which we are here concerned the fact of Christ's consciousness of Himself and His vocation, to which reference has already been made are we not forced to the conclusion that here a new spiritual magnitude has appeared in history, the very differentia of which is that it has eternal significance, and that it is eternal life to know it?

The peculiarity of poetry appears to us to lie in the poet's utter unconsciousness of a listener. See also F. N. Scott, "The Most Fundamental Differentia of Poetry and Prose." "The poet," said Thoreau, "writes the history of his own body."

Men will not get to heaven because they lie under one or other of these predicables. What is that supreme type of character which is in itself good or great, unqualified with any farther differentia? Is there any such? and if there be, where is the representative of this?