Excerpt from The Metaphysic of Experience, Vol. 1 of 4 Very little needs saying by way of preface to the present work. In the year 1880, my little volume, chiefly literary in character, Outcast Essays and Verse Translations (which was published in the following year) no longer claiming my divided attention, I applied myself to a thorough going review and re-examination of the philo sophical field. I had already treated the subject in the three works named, together with Outcast Essays, on my title-page, as well as in various articles contributed to mind and other periodicals. But I resolved to go over the entire subject again, foundations, method, results, and see what new facts I could bring to light, what new steps towards completing my system of philosophy I could take, what parts, if any, required to be modified, or perchance retracted, in that system as it stood in my Philosophy of Reflection, in 1878. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.