vi PREFACE 



look the inspiration the movement of translation 

 draws from the fact that the history of philosophy 

 has become only too well understood. 



Any revision of customary notions with its 

 elimination instead of &quot; solution &quot; of many 

 traditionary problems cannot hope, however, for 

 any unity save that of tendency and operation. 

 Elaborate and imposing system, the regimenting 

 and uniforming of thoughts, are, at present, evi 

 dence that we are assisting at a stage performance 

 in which borrowed or hired figures are maneu 

 vering. Tentatively and piecemeal must the re 

 construction of our stock notions proceed. As a 

 contribution to such a revision, the present collec 

 tion of essays is submitted. With one or two 

 exceptions, their order is that of a reversed 

 chronology, the later essays coming first. The 

 facts regarding the conditions of their first ap 

 pearance are given in connection with each essay. 

 I wish to thank the Editors of the Philosophical 

 Review, of Mind, of the Hibbert Journal, of the 

 Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific 

 Methods, and of the Popular Science Monthly, 

 and the Directors of the Press of Chicago and 

 Columbia Universities, respectively, for permission 

 to reprint such of the essays as appeared orig 

 inally under their several auspices. 



JOHN DEWEY 



COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 

 NEW YOEK CITY, March 1, 1910. 



