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1909 March 25
MEANING 2

wrote the chapters. The substance of this first essay had been written
out in 1872 and submitted to a little "Metaphysical Club" that held its
meetings in Cambridge, Mass. and its most important parts are simply copied from that paper. Our [acknowledged?] [correspondences?] [in???????] was with Chauncey Wright, [for?[ who [?] a promising
a most accurate and subtle acute thinker, who
had, at first, been a follower of Hamilton, but had become a strenuous
and powerful defender of the doctrines of J.S. Mill and, as a pupil of the Academy of [Dor?] the [Dar??????] ideas, through which [???] [might? [???] [??...] In a hundred
private duels with this gentleman, The writer of these essays, who had having been
introduced to philosophy beyond the college instruction in [Arid?], [Jouffroy?], and [Pousin?] and after a private reading of Schiller's Esthetiche Brieven, [the first?] philosophical [book?] will be ever read), devoted study of the Critik der
reinen Vernuft Vernunft, and had passed to the reading of all the the chief works [...?]
of all the great philosophers, as well as of and had given about three years study in all, to the doctors of the middle ages
from Anselm to Okham, without being much shaken in his Kantism, no doubt had been except that he had become firmly convinced of the reality of [?????] generals.
siderably moved enabled him to throw off in a good deal of his servitude
to Kant, while his conviction of the inadequacy of nominalism derived and had otherwise been of such [??????] [realism?] formed a very large part of his education in thinking. Other members of that
class to which he was became [instantly?] indebted [were?] Nicholas St. John Green [????] [??????] always [????] [??????] [?????]
of [everything?] to the practical significance of every proposition had much to
do with bending the writer's opinions toward Pragmatism although his having become [???ed] as a physicist and
being [??????] atmosphere of exact science was [???] still much