Excerpt from Three Introductory Lectures on the Science of Thought
Though the three lectures on the "Science of Thought," which I delivered in March, 1887, at the Royal Institution in London, and which were afterwards published in The Open Court, hardly require a preface, being themselves a kind of preface or introduction to a larger work on the same subject, yet as I had just been writing to a friend of mine in answer to several questions which he had addressed to me on the principal purpose of my book, I gladly give here a few extracts from that letter, which may serve to prepare the reader for what he has to expect in this small volume.
You tell me that my book on the Science of Thought is thoroughly revolutionary, and that I have all recognized authorities in philosophy against me. I doubt it. My book is, if you like, evolutionary, but not revolutionary. I mean it is the natural outcome of that philosophical and historical study of language, which began with Leibniz, and which during our century has so widely spread and ramified as to overshadow nearly all sciences, not excepting what I call the Science of Thought. If you mean by revolutionary a violent breaking with the past, I hold on the contrary that a full appreciation of the true nature of language and a recognition of its inseparableness from thought will prove the best means of recovering that unbroken thread, which binds our modern schools of thought most closely together with those of the Middle Ages and of ancient Greece.
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