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Excerpt from Contributions to Thought
The following papers and miscellanies were mostly written amidst other absorbing engagements and several of them have been occasionally used as public lectures. In presenting them to his friends in this form, the au thor does not wish, or seem, to be giving them any im portance beyond what they may intrinsically have as thoughtful discussions of generally familiar topics. Recently while in the partial enjoyment of that modi cum of leisure which assuredly may be hoped for a?er a half century of editorial service, he has occupied himself in preparing them for the press, in the double sense of revision and composition, - rather more practi cally it may be said than did the amateur printer of Strawberry Hill, in his private studio. The steam press of our time has done the rest of the work.
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