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Elements of Metaphysics

A. E. TAYLOR

Late Professor of Moral Philosophy

in the University of Edinburgh

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TO

F. H. BRADLEY

In heartfelt acknowledgment of all that

his example and his writings have been

to the men of my generation

Ante Ararim Parthus bibet, aut Germania Tigrim,

Quam nostro illius labatur pectore vultus.

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ELEMENTS OF METAPHYSICS

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