Chapter I: Preface

These Essays appeared originally in _The Westminster Gazette_, and have only been so far modified here as is necessary for purposes of volume publication. They aim at being suggestive rather than exhaustive: I shall be satisfied if I have provoked thought without following out each train to a logical conclusion. Most of the Essays are just what they pretend to be--crystallisations into writing of ideas suggested in familiar conversation.

G. A.

Hind Head, _March_ 1894.

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