Excerpt from The Philosophy of Literature
A preface written as an apology is a superfluity. No man has a right to publish unless he have a reason for it. If he have nothing new to say, or if he has not put the old truth in a new fashion to bring it to fresh consideration, he has no reason and therefore no right to utter himself in public. Silence here is an obligation. But I take it that where there may be false or foolish speech, following from great confusion of truth in men's minds, a true word has paramount right to be heard. Babel arises from a confusion of truth, and amidst the din of many voices declaring falsely or purposelessly, there need be no apology for right utterance.
The word of truth set forth in the follow Ping pages I make no claim to be new; it is an old philosophy; yet in the perennial fullness of its truth ever new. It is the philosophy of literature because it is the philosophy of all things.
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