Then there were
some good-natured reviewers who practically said that the book was
simply a collection of amiable platitudes; but that if the public
liked to read such stuff, they were quite at liberty to do so. I
admire these reviewers for a different reason, partly for their
tolerant permission to the public to read what they choose, and
still more because I like to think that there are so many
intelligent people in the world who are wearisomely familiar with
ideas which have only slowly and gradually dawned upon myself. I
have no intention of trying to refute or convince my critics, and I
beg them with all my heart to say what they think about my books,
because only by the frank interchange of ideas can we arrive at the
truth.
But what I am going to try to do in this chapter is to examine the
theory by virtue of which my book is condemned, and I am going to
try to give the fullest weight to the considerations urged against
it. I am sure there is something in what the critics say, but I
believe that where we differ is in this.
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