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HARVARD

COLLE

AUG 4 1891

LIBRARY.

Minot Fund.

WESTMINSTER: PRINTED BY NICHOLS AND SONS,

25, PARLIAMENT STREET.

DEAR LADY BLENNERHASSETT,

In your Frau von Staël we have the contribution of German historical scholarship to the Centenary of 1789. The following pages, in which I have endeavoured to test the ideas underlying the French Revolution by the "moral laws of nature and of nations," may, perhaps, serve, in some sort, to supplement your admirable volumes. However that may be, your kind permission to write your name here, enables me not only to pay a tribute to personal friendship, but to acknowledge the debt of gratitude laid upon me, as upon all scientific students of history throughout the world, by your masterly and monumental work.

Most sincerely yours,

ATHENEUM CLUB, LONDON.

June 20th, 1889.

W. S LILLY.

ADVERTISEMENT

TO THE SECOND EDITION.

My Publishers inform me that the thousand copies of this work, printed a few months ago, have been sold, and that a second edition is called for.

In preparing it for the press, I have carefully revised every sentence, and have made such alterations and additions as seemed desirable, in order to bring out more clearly my meaning, and to meet suggestions for which I am indebted to various reviewers. That appeared to me the best way of manifesting my appreciation of the favour shown to a volume, which, as I am fully conscious, little accords with the dominant tone of what is called "public opinion."

March 1st, 1890.

W. S. L.

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