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[17]
Let this account then serve to describe the Good in outline—for no doubt the
proper procedure is to begin by making a rough sketch, and to fill it in afterwards. If a
work has been well laid down in outline, to carry it on and complete it in detail may be
supposed to be within the capacity of anybody; and in this working out of details Time
seems to be a good inventor or at all events coadjutor. This indeed is how advances in the
arts have actually come about, since anyone can fill in the gaps.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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