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THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE
with institutions of which your conscience disapproves, — compromises which are usually made for the sake of the general good, — instead of producing the good you expected, inevitably lead you, not only to acknowledge the institution you disapprove of, but also to participate in the evil that institution produces.
I am glad to be able by this statement at least to do something to correct the error into which I was led by my compromise.
I have also to mention that besides reinstating the parts excluded by the Censor from the Russian editions, other corrections and additions of importance have been made in this edition.
29th March, 1898.
