PREFACE
In accordance with the terms of the Barbour-Page Foundation, these lectures are published by the University of Virginia. The author owes his thanks to the authorities of the university for their courtesy in conforming to his wishes in respect to some important details of publication. With the exception of a few trifling changes the lectures are printed as delivered.
These lectures will be best understood by reference to some portions of Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding. The author’s acknowledgments are due to Locke’s Theory of Knowledge and Its Historical Relations by Professor James Gibson, to Prolegomena to an Idealist Theory of Knowledge by Professor Norman Kemp Smith, and to Scepticism and Animal Faith by George Santayana.
A. N. W.
Harvard University, June, 1927.
