Excerpt from The Supremacy of Spirit

In November 1919 the Cambridge University Press published a book written by myself and entitled Spiritual Pluralism and Recent Philosophy. Shortly afterwards it was suggested to me that I should attempt to write a less detailed and less technical account of my theories, which might perhaps be of some interest to a wider public than that consisting only of people concerned with philosophy professionally.

After some hesitation I decided to make the attempt, and this book, the completion of which has been considerably delayed by pressure of other work, is the result. The greatest difficulty with which the writer of a book such as this is faced, is the difficulty of making himself readily comprehensible to the general reader without sacrificing that logical and technical soundness apart from which he is helpless before his fellow philosophers, to whose attack the publication of any book of any kind may naturally expose him. I have without doubt fallen between two stools on many occasions, and must beg for tolerance.

Whatever general practical interest this book may have, will probably he mainly in the later chapters.

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