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1909 Aug 27 2:45 PM
MEANING Preface to the BOOK 1

In the The writer's faith that there must be some somebody who will be probably interested in these
thoughts has have been committed is [in?] partly due to the fact that first
in these essays, I have decided to commit them to the press. The first of them,
the in the main part of which [was?] a reprint of an article of written and published in 1876 and
published in the year may be regarded as a curiosity as containing the
earliest formulation of the doctrine or method [I called?] that had before been called
pragmatism by the writer, from which appelation and of which the pragmatism now voiced abroad
is a modification and development, and extension.
outgrowth from the in other [mineing?] of that little seed. The ideas contained set forth in
the others places are those parts of the volume contain the matured ideas of a man who from boyhood to old age has longed and labored to learn
the truth about the nature of thought and has devoted his whole life to the labor that have consumed the problems herein and reasoning The very truth (be it what it might) about the questions herein considered. If younger
minds men be able at once clearly to point out his fallacies, so much the better. His treatment will at least
and research of it bring relief from the habit of the past half century of peering at these things
through the pinhole of psychology and of substituting for it a [pure?] [active?] of some
of which he has no other [result?] [to?]
find that that it had not been
pushed with sufficient amplitude of [expenditures?]. But this is not said in any derogation of modern psychology
If he is right the great minds of this [????] marvellous era of
genius that has been launched upon physics and chemistry. But if he is right ,
science, that [may?] be taken as dating from in which we enjoy the privilege of living, whose initial epoch may be placed in that dat of May 1543 in which

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