PREFACE. 



TTAVING now no immediate pros- 

 pect of being able to expand or 

 to illustrate the argument contained in the 

 following pages, I republish it with very- 

 little alteration from the form in which 

 it originally appeared in ** Good Words." 

 I am well aware how much it requires 

 both expansion and illustration. But I 

 hope that at least the main lines of that 

 argument are traced with sufficient 

 clearness to enable others with more 



