Excerpt from The Monadology and Other Philosophical Writings: Translated With Introduction and Notes
In this country Leibniz has received less attention than any other of the great philosophers. Mr. Merz has given, in a small volume, a general outline of Leibniz's thought and work. Professor Sorley has written for the Encyclopaedia Britannica a remarkably clear, but brief, account of his philosophy, and there are American translations of the Nouveaux Essais and of some of his philosophical papers. That is very nearly the whole of English writing about him. Yet few philosophical systems stand so much in need of exposition as that of Leibniz. His theories have to be extracted from seven large volumes of correspondence, criticism, magazine articles, and other discursive writings, and it is only in recent years that this material has been made fully available by the publication of Gerhardt's edition. No complete and detailed account of Leibniz's philosophy has hitherto been published in English, and accordingly I have written a very full Introduction to this book, with illustrative foot-notes, consisting mainly of translations from Leibniz himself.
The endeavour of the book is to make the Monadology clear to students. I cannot agree with Dillmann in treating it as of little importance.
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