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PREFACE

review for that admirable journal a work on Chinese Metaphysics. Mr. Pott tells the story of the article.

"He read up for the subject, at my desire, in the Encyclopedia Britannica … he read for metaphysics under the letter M, and for China under the letter C, and combined his information!"

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