The opening of Preface
TO THE REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION OF VOL. II.
To the statements made in the preface to the first volume of this revised edition, there must here be added a few having special reference to this second volume.
One of them is that the revision has not been carried out in quite the same way, but in a way somewhat less complete. When reviewing the first volume a friendly critic, Prof. Lloyd Morgan, said:--
“But though the intellectual weight has also been augmented, it is an open question whether it would not have been wiser to leave intact a treatise, &c... relegating corrections and additions to notes and appendices.”
I think that Prof. Morgan is right. Though at the close of the preface to volume I, I wrote:--“in all sections not marked as new, the essential ideas set forth are the same as they were in the original edition of 1864,” yet the reader who has not read this statement, or does not bear it in mind, will suppose that all or most of the enunciated conceptions are of recent date, whereas only a small part of them are.