to enlarge the introduction, especially the sections treating of the Renaissance and the Reformation: besides, it appeared necessary to add the results of recent investigations concerning Descartes. The stand-point and arrangement of the work are unchanged. It is unnecessary to repeat in the preface what is shown in the work itself. When a third edition of a work so extensive and expensive as the present is called for, I can venture, with some satisfaction, to regard it as a proof that it has been of some service in the instruction of my contemporaries. HEIDELBERG, Oct. 23, 1878. KUNO FISCHER. |