Excerpt from Handbook of the History of Philosophy
The reader will readily understand that this translation is a work of gratitude. The assistance of this little book to the student of Philosophy I have elsewhere pronounced "indispensable;" and this is the result of a genuine experience. The resolution being once taken, again, to introduce the work to an English public, it appeared right that this should be effected by a new and native translation, rather than by the mere reproduction of a foreign one. Of the merits of this latter, Mr. Seelye"s American translation, I cannot say a word: my translation has been executed without my seeing it, and in absolute independence generally. Perhaps I may be allowed to say this, however, that I am informed by the German publisher that the American translation follows the first German edition, "whilst the present fifth edition contains a variety of improvements and additions." From the same authority, writing some months ago, I learn that "of the German issue 20,000 copies have been already sold, certainly a rare event in the case of a rigorously scientific book, and the best proof of its excellence." How this "excellence" has originated will be understood at once, when we consider that Schwegler, a remarkably ripe, full man, and possessed of the gift of style, wrote this history, so to speak, at a single stroke of the pen, as, in the first instance, an article for an Encyclop?dia.
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