PREFACE.
Oswald J. (Oswald Joseph) Reichel translation
The present translation aims at supplying an introductory volume to a later period of the history of mind in Greece, which may be collectively described as the post-Aristotelian. To the moralist and theologian no less than to the student of philosophy this period is one of peculiar interest; for it supplied the scientific mould into which Christianity in the early years of its growth was cast, and bearing the shape of which it has come down to us.
The translation has been carefully revised for the present edition, with the view of rendering more clear any passages which seemed obscure.
À la Ronde, near Lympstone, Devon: August 1891.