PREFACE 



r I ^HE following essays have been written and pub- 

 1 lished at various times, and my thanks are due to 

 the previous publishers for the permission to reprint 

 them. 



The essay on " Mysticism and Logic " appeared in the 

 Hibbert Journal for July, 1914. " The Place of Science 

 in a Liberal Education " appeared in two numbers of 

 The New Statesman, May 24 and 31, 1913. " The Free 

 Man's Worship " and " The Study of Mathematics " 

 were included in a former collection (now out of print), 

 Philosophical Essays, also published by Messrs. Longmans, 

 Green & Co. Both were written in 1902 ; the first appeared 

 originally in the Independent Review for 1903, the second 

 in the New Quarterly, November, 1907. In theoretical 

 Ethics, the position advocated in " The Free Man's 

 Worship " is not quite identical with that which I 

 hold now : I feel less convinced than I did then of the 

 objectivity of good and evil. But the general attitude 

 towards life which is suggested in that essay still seems 

 to me, in the main, the one which must be adopted in 

 times of stress and difficulty by those who have no 

 dogmatic religious beliefs, if inward defeat is to be 

 avoided. 



The essay on " Mathematics and the Metaphysicians " 

 was written in 1901, and appeared in an American maga- 

 zine, The International Monthly, under the title " Recent 

 Work in the Philosophy of Mathematics." Some points 



