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1909 Aug 24
MEANING
Preface to the Volume 1

PREFACE

I venture to appear before you, Reader lay these writings before the public in the confidence that the
ideas of a man who has devoted his whole being from boyhood to the age
of seventy, to with unflagging industry, dev and passionate desire for
the very truth, whatever it that might turn out to be, to the study of the
nature of reasoning, (to which the subjects of these essays may must be regarded as appertaining from the point of view they adopt), and who, for in the hope of learning more of
it, has pursued successively a number of other studies, chemistry, phonetics,
several branches of physics, chromatics, astronomy, mathematics, psychology, the history of science, and that of phonetics, -- to a point at which