Excerpt from Ecclesiastes: A Contribution to Its Interpretation; Containing an Introduction to the Book; An Exegetical Analysis, and a Translation, With Notes When the work was now, as it seemed to me, just ready for the press, I began to perceive the peculiar relation of Ecclesiastes to the post-aristotelian philosophy. This being seen, I tried to adapt my work, by comparatively incon siderable alteration; and I gave some account Of the fact I had discovered in a pamphlet entitled Some New Evidence as to the Date of Ecclesiastes, London, 1872. I found, however, that the adaptation Of my work which I had attempted was unsatisfactory. The relation of Ecclesiastes to the post-aristotelian philosophy was too fundamental to be thus dealt with. Much Of the work was accordingly written anew, and a good deal Of illustrative matter in troduced. The work has certainly cost me an expenditure of time and labour, such as I could not have at all antici pated when my attention was first directed to the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.