Excerpt from Property and Contract in Their Relations to the Distribution of Wealth, Vol. 1
It is the privilege of an author in his Preface to drop the third person and to speak directly in the first person to those who may be interested in the genesis of his book and in the circumstances surrounding its preparation as well as in any other matters which he cares to state in explanation of his undertaking. Generally he has in mind in his Preface that part of the general public who may be curious, scientifically or otherwise, about books in his particular field and also, and more especially, a narrower group of colleagues and friends to whom he desires to make clearer than would be appropriate in the text of his book his intentions, the obstacles that he may have encountered, and the relation of the work in question to other plans. I gladly avail myself of this privilege to speak to those who may care to hear what I have to say about my Property and Contract in their Relations to the Distribution of Wealth; and this circle includes before all others my own students, to whom I have been lecturing on these topics during the past twenty years. And I am moved at once to express my gratitude to them for the stimulus which I have received from my contact with them.
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