FOOTNOTES
C. T. (Charles Thomas) Campion translation
PREFACE Notes
CHAPTER III Notes
CHAPTER V Notes
CHAPTER VI Notes
CHAPTER VII Notes
CHAPTER VIII Notes
CHAPTER IX Notes
CHAPTER X Notes
CHAPTER XI Notes
CHAPTER XII Notes
CHAPTER XIII Notes
CHAPTER XIV Notes
CHAPTER XV Notes
CHAPTER XVI Notes
CHAPTER XX Notes
Preface Notes
1 [Translator’s Note.—Weltanschauung. This compound word may be translated “theory of the universe,” “world-theory,” “world-conception,” or “world-view.” The first is misleading as suggesting, wrongly, a scientific explanation of the universe; the second and third as suggesting, less ambitiously but still wrongly, an explanation of how and why our human world is what it is. The last indicates a sufficiently wide knowledge and consideration of our corner of the universe to allow all factors to be taken into consideration which bear on the question at issue.
There may be passages in which it is desirable to vary the translation, and others in which it is possible to give the meaning in more elegant English, for good English style does not take kindly to such compound words. But this latter consideration can be only a secondary one in the translation of a philosophical work, the first object of which must be to ensure that the author’s meaning shall be reproduced as clearly as possible.]