FrontmatterTitlepageLetters Copyright This book has been prepared, and privately printed, for certain friends of Chauncey Wright in this country and in England. In making selections from the letters, I have not considered what might please the indifferent reader, but rather what would interest those who knew Wright, or who had already been drawn to his essays; being, however, not without hope that others into whose hands the book may fall will find here much that will seem worthy of their attention. I wish I might believe that anybody will have as much pleasure or as much benefit in reading the volume as I have had in editing it. Even in so slight a sketch of life and character as is here undertaken, it has seemed well to omit nothing within my knowledge which might help to a just estimate of the man. The rule for such attempts, whether large or small, is that of the Roman author: “Cum exprimere imaginem consuetudinis atque vitae velimus Epaminondae, nihil videmur debere praetermittere, quod pertineat ad eam declarandam.” J. B. T. Cambridge, December 21, 1877. TABLE OF CHAPTERS.
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