Excerpt from The Past in the Present: What Is Civilisation?
The publication of these Lectures, which were written under many difficulties, has been delayed in the hope that I should find time to re-write them. The necessary leisure, however, has not come, and I have consented to publish them as they were delivered - in all their incompleteness and with all their faults of style and arrangement. One change only I have made. I have struck out all merely amplifying, coupling, or recapitulating paragraphs. By this, perhaps, I have made them read less runningly. But those who have the printed Lectures in hand do not require such aids, and will gladly exchange them for shortness.
I do not need to point out the objects I have in view in the first six Lectures.
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