Excerpt from Celebrities in El Dorado, 1850-1906 According TO aristotle, imitation is natural to man from childhood, one of his advantages over the lower animals being that he is the most imitative animal in the world, and learns at first by imitation.% But what to imitate is important, of course. The great artist provides a touchstone for the local pedagogue and student. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.