PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
The differences of the present edition from the
previous one in no wise affect the substance of the
views advanced. There are, indeed, both alterations
and additions; but the former are merely verbal,
confined to correcting misprints and amending slips
of expression that involved some inconsistency or
ambiguity, while the latter are all intended either
to clear up misunderstandings on the part of
reviewers, or to further elucidate the new view and
its consequences, or else to answer objections made
by some of my critics.
One prominent occasion of the additions, I may frankly say, was found in an occurrence which, if left without some emphatic public notice and explanatory cautions, could not fail to be seriously misleading. I refer to the appearance of a later volume, also bearing the title Personal Idealism,[1] yet presenting views very diverse from those covered by that expression in the present book. Throughout the many years that I have held the metaphysical
- ↑ Personal Idealism: Philosophical Essays by Eight Members of the University of Oxford. Edited by Henry Sturt. London: Macmillan & Co., 1902.
