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concerned to do is to make writing of it more possible.

I do not claim that the part of the present volume which
deals with Speculative Rhetoric will approach that
ideal. As to the other points of my book, this [gosfatory?] chapter
commits one to producing a work of great importance or
to being set down a drawler of nonsence. But for the
methodentic part, I only say that since my youth I have
associated with strong thinkers and have never close to make it a point
to study their handling of other problems in all its details. When
I was young, no remark was more frequent than that a givem
method, though excellent in one science, would be disastrous
in another. If a mere aging of the externals of a metjod
were meant, the remark might pass. But it was, on the con-
trary, applied [treetensions?] of methods in their hue souls.
I only continued myself thar, on the contrary, that was
the way in whch methods maybe improved; and