Title: On the Soul (De Anima) Author: Aristotle translated by J. A. Smith Published:. Preamble It was the summer of 1983 that I walked over to the Ohio State Fair from the trailer park where I lived.  The newest edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica had just released, and they had a booth.  With my love of books, living on my own, and just a few days into the ripe wise age of twenty, I was easily convinced to take a loan and purchase a library.  This collection consisted of a thirty-volume encyclopedia, a fifty-four-volume set of Great Books of the Western World, a three-volume Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, and a twenty-one-volume collection of the Annals of America.  Since then, I have lugged these 108 books from one end of the country to the other.  I have never regretted this purchase. This collection was my Wikipedia.  It gave me incite into the world around me.  The Great Books, encyclopedia, and the dictionary I have used consistently over the years.  The Annals, for some reason, have been referenced or read very rarely, some volumes not at all.  But, to get back to my topic, Aristotle.  Two books, in this collection, are dedicated to his…