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EDWARD CAIRD,

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LATE FELLOW AND TUTOR OF MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD,
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PREFATORY NOTE.

ALL the papers included in these volumes have
already been published, with the exception of the

lecture upon Carlyle. The essays on Dante,
Goethe, and Rousseau appeared in the Contem-
porary Review, the essay on Wordsworth in Fraser's
Magazine, and the articles on Cartesianism and
Metaphysic in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
have to offer my best thanks to the Editor of the
Contemporary Review, to Messrs. Longmans, Green,
& Co., and to Messrs. A. & C. Black, for their
kindness in allowing this reprint.

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I should perhaps mention that the article on Cartesianism was published in 1876, and the article on Metaphysic in 1883. Subsequent to

these dates there has been in this country much

discussion as to the Philosophy of Spinoza, and also as to the general relations between Metaphysic, Logic, and Psychology, to which, of course, no reference will be found in these articles.