PREFATORY NOTE. IN fulfilling the melancholy duty of investigating the large quantity of MSS. left by the late Professor Veitch, I have been greatly aided by information which he gave me six weeks before his death. Inspection of his papers confirmed his verbally expressed opinion of them in nearly all particulars. The essay printed here under the title "Dualism and Monism" was left ready for publication, and is reproduced without essential change. Another work, of a much more extended character, had been so far drafted. It was intended to embody a history of the leading doctrines of Greek Philosophy with special reference to the theory that the history of philosophy is a record of "progress by antagonism." As Mr Veitch had himself indicated to me, this MS., although of considerable length, is not wrought out in detail, and is therefore not in a condition to warrant publication. The opening chapter, purely general in nature, nevertheless presented signs of revision, and it forms the second essay in this volume. The third essay, which many consider one of the best examples of its author's constructive writing, was originally published in Wordsworthiana, a series of papers selected from the Transactions of the Wordsworth Society. By the courteous permission of Professor Knight, the Editor, and of Messrs Macmillan & Co., the Publishers, which I desire gratefully to acknowlege, it is reprinted here. At Mrs Veitch's request I have prefixed a brief Introduction. Of its inadequacy no one can be more sensible than myself. R. M. WENLEY. QUEEN MARGARET COLLEGE, |