



Ser. 







PREFACE 



TO 



THE FIFTH EDITION. 



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7 IN preparing this edition, only those passages which 



7 have been shown by recent researches to be erroneous 

 ** have been removed. It has not been thought neces- 

 l sary, or even desirable, to modify the wording of Essays 

 ^ (by changes of tense or otherwise) in such a way that, 

 ^ as thus modified, the Essays might have appeared in 

 ^ 1884. In many cases this would have been altogether 

 ^ misleading, whereas, with the dates prefixed to the 

 ^Several Essays, no misconceptions can arise. 



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