4 MARCH 1922, Page 14

"THE MIND' IS THE MAN.' .

[TO THE EDITOR 07 'THE '" SPECTATOR21

Sin,—An earlier source of the phrase "The mind is the:man" than that from Ovid' (quoted frora Bartlett by " IL B." in-your• issue of last week)' is to be found- in Cicero's De Republica, VI., xxiv.,,26. He says, "Melts cujusque is est quisquel • non- ea figura quae &fete clemonstrari•potest ."—The mind is- else man, not the person who can be• pointed out with- the Amer. Cicero himself' may be q-noting, for F see that' in Cassetrs Boots:: of quotations (p. 587) the first five wordi are given as se"Isettte proverb."—I am, Sir; toc., LAWRENCE H. Dawson 4 Dartmouth Road, Hendon,.N. TV. 4.