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THE FREE MAN AND THE SOLDIER
THE MORAL ECONOMY
THE APPROACH TO PHILOSOPHY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
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BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON
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Copyright, 1905, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Printed in the United States of America
F
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THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED TO
MY FATHER
AS A TOKEN OF MY LOVE AND ESTEEM
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In an essay on "The Problem of Philosophy at the Present Time,"Professor Edward Caird says that "philosophy is not a first venture intoa new field of thought, but the rethinking of a secular and religiousconsciousness which has been developed, in the main, independently ofphilosophy."[vii:A] If there be any inspiration and originality in thisbook, they are due to my great desire that philosophy should appear inits vital relations to more familiar experiences. If philosophy is, asis commonly assumed, appropriate to a phase in the development of everyindividual, it should grow out of interests to which he is alreadyalive. And if the great philosophers are indeed never dead, this factshould manifest itself in their classic or historical representation ofa perennial outlook upon the world. I am not seeking to attach tophilosophy a fictitious liveliness, wherewith to insinuate it into thegood graces of the student. I hope [...