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his death, seems specially appropriate in the case 

 of one who lived so little for himself and so entirely 

 for the great truths with which he dealt. The 

 greater part of the book, as the editor, Mr. A. C. 

 Bradley, tells us, had been used in professorial 

 lectures, Mr. Green having been appointed Whyte's 

 Professor of Moral Philosophy in 1877; and about 

 a quarter of the whole appeared in Mind in the 

 first half of the year in which Mr. Green died. Mr. 

 Bradley is responsible for the arrangement into 

 books and chapters, the manuscript having been 

 written in paragraphs, and we also owe to the editor 

 a most excellent table of contents which serves as a 

 full and true analysis of the book itself. The short 

 preface of the editor ends with a sentence worth 

 quoting, as showing how Professor Green affected 

 those who had the privilege of being much with him 

 and being able to appreciate him. After acknow- 

 ledging his debt to Mrs. Green, Professor Caird, 

 and Mr. R. L. Nettleship, Mr. Bradley concludes: 



" But it would seem to me, and to those who have helped 

 me, out of place to express any gratitude for work given to 

 a book which, more than any writing of Mr. Green's yet 

 published, may enable the public outside Oxford to under- 

 stand not only the philosophical enthusiasm which his teach- 

 ing inspired ; but the reverence and love which are felt for 

 him by all who knew him well." 



If the theology of the Catholic Church had less in 

 common than it has with the metaphysics of Pro- 

 fessor Green, English Churchmen would still owe 



