Obrázky na stránke
PDF
ePub

COPYRIGHT, 1911,

By S. S. HEBBERD.

217148

APR 19 1918

BG•H35

PREFACE

THIS book has cost me more than half a century of toil and the loss of most things that men chiefly desire. And still it is very imperfect. How, indeed, could it be otherwise, since I have had to cut my way through a wilderness, aided only by the errors. of those who have preceded me? But, as I have shown in my "Philosophy of History," we are on the verge of a great transition. The Protestant age of dissent and division has exhausted itself, and has now little of value to offer us. And so I send forth my book, hoping that despite its imperfections, it may serve to foreshadow the better time that is coming.

I am encouraged too by what Kant says in the Scholia to his Prolegomena: "All transitions from a tendency to its contrary pass through the stage of indifference, and this moment is most dangerous for an author, but the most favorable for the science. For when party-spirit has died out by a total dissolution of former connections, minds are in the best state to listen to several proposals for an organization according to a new plan."

S. S. HEBBERD.

[blocks in formation]
« PredošláPokračovať »