Excerpt from Papers Read Before the Society, 1903-1904 You see how large - I had almost said immeasurable - a field is hereby opened to philosophy, a field nevertheless which it is bound, so far as in it lies, to measure and reclaim. For supposing that any idea or belief of common sense should be examined by philosophy, and should be replaced by some new idea or belief, which in its turn becomes current, and wins general acceptance, at once the question arises, to which of the two, philosophy or common sense, does this new idea or belief belong - is it to philosophy, in virtue of its being due to philosophical criticism, or is it to common sense, in virtue of its having taken its place among generally accepted truths? 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.