" = "PERICLES: A TALE OF ATHENS," 'SMALL BOOKS ON GREAT SUBJECTS," ETC. ALSO SOME UNPUBLISHED POEMS, ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED. AND An Appendix, CONTAINING "PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES AND PHILOSOPHICAL EXPERIENCE," ETC. ETC. LONDON: TRÜBNER AND CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.. MDCCCLXIV. 21434.27 Harvard College Library LONDON: SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET, COVENT GARDEN. PREFACE. TWENTY-TWO years ago a little book was published, entitled "Philosophical Theories and Philosophical Experience," by a Pariah. It was the first of the series of "Small Books on Great Subjects," of which the twenty-second and last number, on "The State of Man subsequent to the Promulgation of Christianity," appeared in 1854. These books, published anonymously and almost unaided by advertisements and reviews, attracted considerable attention both in this country and in America; second and third editions were called for; and not a little curiosity was expressed in many quarters as to who the "few wellwishers to knowledge," whose essays evinced so much conscientious research and logical thought, might be. But the secret of their authorship was well kept in the small circle of intimate friends to whom it was confided; and no one, least of all the critics, who speculated upon the pursuits and calling of the men whose strong grasp of mind they admired and applauded, ever suspected that it was to one unfaltering intellect and to one untiring pen that all the more important numbers of the series were due; still less that it was the intellect and the pen of a Woman. |