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GUESSES AT THE RIDDLE
OF EXISTENCE
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GUESSES AT
THE RIDDLE OF EXISTENCE
AND
OTHER ESSAYS ON KINDRED SUBJECTS
BY
GOLDWIN
SMITH,
D.C.L.
AUTHOB OFUn"iCteAdNASDtAateAsN,D"T"HEEsbCaAvNbADoInANQuQkCsEtSiToInbON'" "Tlllt
OFthb Day," etc., irr.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1898
A.II rights reserved
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COPTBIOHT, 1896,
Bt macmillan and go.
Set upand electrotyped December, 1896. Reprinted March,
May,1897; July,1898.
X8.Cuihlng&Co.—BerwickbSmith
NorwoodMm.U.S.A.
PREFACE
Op the papers in this volume three have
appeared before two in the North American
;
Review^ one in the Forum^ to the editors of
which, respectively, the writer's thanks are
due for their courtesy in permitting the repub-
lication. The writer has also once or twice
drawn on previous papers of his own.
For such of the essays as have appeared in
print some inquiries have been made. Those
who desire to read them again are probably
of the same mind as the writer, and with him
believe that there is no longer any use in
clinging to the untenable or in shutting our
eyes to that which cannot be honestly denied.
The educated world, and to a great extent the
uneducated world also, has got beyond the
point at which frank dealing with a tradi-
tional creed can be regarded as a wanton dis-
turbance of faith.
