appearing like a vciy ungracious response ^
sympathetically- written review. I ean only*
gravity of the question at issue, in so faf A
myself, may be taken in mitigation, if no^Sai
apology. •

ManA mi, 1864. ^



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[The/oUomng chapter was contained tn the fir&t tdXCm
Firat Priaciples. / omitted it from, the re-orgamzed secOTid
e^Hon, because it did not form an essential part of the new
structure. As it is referred to in the /oregmng pages, and as
its general argument is germane to the contents of those pages,
I kaee thought well to append it here. Moreover, though i
hope eventually to incorporate it in that division of the Prin-
ciples of Sociology rekich treats of Intellectual Progress,
yet as it must be long before it can thus re-appear in its per-
manent place, aTid as, slwald I not get so far in the execution
of my undertaking, it may never thus re-appear at all, it seems
proper to make it more accessible than it is at present. The
first and last sections, mhich served to link it into the argument
of the Tcork to rehich it originally belonged, are omitted. The
rest has been carefully revised, and in some parts considerably
altered,'}



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