PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION 



THAT a new edition of Humanism has not appeared 

 simultaneously with that of Studies in Humanism is due 

 to the facts that both volumes could not be passed 

 through the press together, and that Humanism needed 

 rather more revision. I have also taken the opportunity 

 of enlarging it by the addition of four papers published 

 between 1907-9, which seemed congruous with its subject. 

 They have been inserted after Essay XII in order to 

 produce a minimum of dislocation in the old order. 



The only other point to which attention need be 

 drawn in this Preface is that its forerunner in the first 

 edition has not been found to prophesy falsely. The 

 prediction that Protagoras would be found on re-examina 

 tion to hold his own against Plato (p. xxi of this edition) 

 has been fulfilled in Essays II and XIII-XV of Studies 

 ft in Humanism, the pamphlet on Plato or Protagoras ? 

 and articles in Mind Nos. 68 and 78. The prediction 

 (p. x, p. xiv/i of this edition) that Pragmatism would be 

 found to be primarily a criticism of the traditional Logic 

 and the promise of a reformed Logic, has been to some 

 extent fulfilled in my Formal Logic (1912), though a 

 complete systematic exposition of the Logic of Real 

 Knowing has not yet appeared, and meantime the two 

 Humanism volumes together with Axioms as Postulates 

 must be regarded as containing aspirations towards it. 



Lastly, it may be noted that the choice of the word 



