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ENCYCLOPÆDIA METROPOLITANA;

OR,

System of Universal Knowledge:

ON A METHODICAL PLAN

PROJECTED BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED.

First Division. Pure Sriences.

MORAL AND METAPHYSICAL PHILOSOPHY.

LONDON AND GLASGOW:

RICHARD GRIFFIN AND COMPANY,

PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.

1854.

Phil 8123.2

1863. Novill

Gift of

Rev. James Walker, &.t. (blass of 18141)

LONDON:

WILSON and OGILVY,

Skinner Street.

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PROFESSOR OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED.

PREFACE.

THE first part of this treatise on Ancient Philosophy was published, in a separate form, three years ago. I said in the preface to it that the second part must be entirely rewritten, the original draft in the Encyclopædia being as unsatisfactory to the writer as it could be to the readers of it. I did not at all know, at that time, what a task I was undertaking, or how much the difficulties of it would be increased by the brevity I had imposed upon myself, and by my determination to give only what I had originally projected a sketch of the progress of thought—not a report of systems, which would save the student of them from the necessity of referring to Brucker or to Ritter. Considering how poor the result is, I am ashamed to confess how much trouble it has cost me to fix the form and method of the treatise, or how often the preliminary portion of it has been recast. I have no doubt that many will think I have been more diffuse than my limits warranted; that many will complain of me for neglecting writers whom I ought to have noticed; that the two classes of critics will agree in the opinion that I have always chosen the wrong occasions for compression or for dilation. I can only say that I have endeavoured to present faithfully what appeared

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