UNIVERSITY 



PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



THIS book has to a considerable extent already found 

 its audience, and has received from the thinking portion 

 of the public a degree of attention beyond what I 

 ventured to anticipate for it. 



For the benefit of those '^v^o may read the present 

 edition, I take the opportunity of saying here a few 

 words, in order to explain more clearly the general 

 character, aim, and method of the book, as well as the 

 position taken up in it. 



In the first place, the work is essentially philosophi- 

 cal in its spirit, in its aim, in its standard of thorough- 

 ness, and in its subject, which comprises, amongst other 

 matters, the questions which Philosophy has always had 

 on hand, and which she considers peculiarly her own. Nor 

 do the questions cease to be philosophical, though new 

 and important contributions towards their solution from 

 the side of Science have been handed in, and have to 

 be specially taken into consideration in the treatment 

 of each of them. 



But though philosophical, the book is also in a sense 

 popular; that is to say, it is not merely addressed to 



