Excerpt from Essays I-XXXNO pretence to originality is made in the pages which follow. But the thoughts ex pressed in them are not mere repetitions of those entertained by previous thinkers: they result from independent re¿ection, and the coincidences with the work of former writers which will doubtless appear below are to be regarded as confirmations, not as plagiarisms.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.