io8 ESSAYS SCIENTIFIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL. 



VI. 

 PROLEGOMENA TO ETHICS. 1 



THE publication of a work on moral philosophy 

 by Professor Green will be welcomed by many 

 besides those who have been brought directly 

 within the sphere of his influence. People generally 

 knew little of him. When his unexpected and 

 almost sudden death in March, 1882, called forth 

 the noble testimonies to his life and work of 

 those who knew him well, many were astonished 

 to find how great a man he was who had been 

 taken away from among us. Students of philo- 

 sophy had, of course, read his two or three 

 review articles, and above all his introduction to 

 Hume. Oxford men were familiar with his earnest, 

 thoughtful face, and they knew that he was " a 

 philosopher," and that the article in the North 

 British on the " Philosophy of Aristotle," must be 

 read by any one who hoped for high honours in 

 " the schools." But it was a comparatively small 

 number of men who really appreciated him, and 

 the publication of the "Prolegomena to Ethics," after 

 1 Prolegomena to Ethics. By T. H. Green, M.A., LL.D. 



