PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION 



The differences of the present edition from the 

 previous one in no wise affect the substance of the 

 views advanced. There are, indeed, both alterations 

 and additions ; but the former are merely verbal, 

 confined to correcting misprints and amending slips 

 of expression that involved some inconsistency or 

 ambiguity, while the latter are all intended either 

 to clear up misunderstandings on the part of re- 

 viewers, or to further elucidate the new view and 

 its consequences, or else to answer objections made 

 by some of my critics. 



One prominent occasion of the additions, I may 

 frankly say, was found in an occurrence which, 

 if left without some emphatic public notice and 

 explanatory cautions, could not fail to be seriously 

 misleading. I refer to the appearance of a later 

 volume, also bearing the title Personal Idealism} yet 

 presenting views very diverse from those covered by 

 that expression in the present book. Throughout 

 the many years that I have held the metaphysical 



1 Personal Idealism : Philosophical Essays by Eight Members of 

 the University of Oxford. Edited by Henry Sturt. London : Mac- 

 millan & Co., 1902. 



