THE BEGINNING AND END OF METAPHYSICS AND A NECESSARY ASSUMPTION IN ALL POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY BY ALFRED WILLIAMS MOMERIE M.A., D.SC., LL.D. SOMETIME FELLOW OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS IN KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON FIFTH EDITION, REVISED WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS MDCCCXCV All Rights reserved PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. THE substance of the following pages was originally written as a thesis for my doctor's degree. It was the embodiment of thoughts which were uppermost in my mind, after some years of almost exclusive devotion to philosophical reading. Notwithstanding the favourable reception accorded to the first edition, I delayed the publication of a second, hoping that I might be able, as a friendly reviewer had suggested, to strengthen my position by enlargement. Various engagements have, however, kept me from securing enough time for this purpose; and as I find the book is being constantly called for, I thought it better that it should come out again in the same slight form, rather than 128209 |