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PREFACE—Continued.

mediums, we believe in them perhaps rather too much ; we perhaps attach too little weight to the special experience of the parochial clergy. But are we outgrowing our slavery to the tyranny of / cliques ? Are we not in some danger of sacrificing much that is valuable to the general intellectual Trades Unionism of the Middle Classes, who decree that what they know not is not knowledge ; that nothing can be of any use except what they can see the use of without taking any trouble to in- vestigate ? Sacrificing some things that might be of use in future to the serene conviction of nearly everyone who has anyhow caught the ear of the public for the time being, that what he knows not is not knowledge? Mary Everest Boole. October, 1908.