Excerpt from Fragments in Philosophy and Science: Being Collected Essays and Addresses
The volume is made up of papers selected from a larger number scattered during fifteen years in various journals. It is thought worth while to gather them together because -and the selections are made with view to this - they are related to larger topics on which I have published more extensively - or intend to -in separate works. The group of philosophical essays are introductory to a developed view of the world. The critical and historical papers naturally stand more squarely on their own feet; yet they too walk in a direction, and cany their own signboards. The strictly experimental studies, on the other hand, give results which in so far justify their own presence here either as contributing something to their respective topics, or as announcing ideas which have proved in some small way fruitful in the later literature.
Speaking of signboards, it may be well to erect one or two of them in this place, in advance, though I know the risks of labelling things, and tremble before that risk. Yet one may be allowed to encourage his reader to start in - or to discourage him from starting in! - by telling him what the general direction is. At any rate so much is in my mind to say, not only for readers of these papers, but for those who may know the more connected discussions of my other books.
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