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xl deceased, for the fulfilment of this pious duty, he readily accepted the task ; but his early return, after a few months' furlough, to the labour of an important office in India, compelled him to relinquish the actual publication. Another friend, who had the advantage of consulting unreservedly with Sir Alexander Grant, and being made fully acquainted with his views, undertook, in accordance with Mrs Ferrier's wishes, to prepare these volumes for the press. For the appearance of these lectures in their present form, and for the selection of such among his other writings as are here put together, the second editor alone is responsible.

The lectures on Greek Philosophy were mainly composed, or at least delivered in the shape into which Mr Ferrier finally brought them, about the year 1859. Before this year he had lectured on some periods of Greek Philosophy, and may in several cases have incorporated his earlier with his later lectures. Some parts of the remarks upon Aristotle bear the date 1857 and 1858; others again seem to have been written as late as February and March 1863. Of the discussion referring to the Stoics and Epicureans, some papers have marginal dates of 1857 and 1858, as well as later notices of 1860, 1861, and 1862. The earlier part, as far as the end of the Cyrenaic, Cynic, and Megaric schools, appears to have been more fully elaborated than what follows. His lectures up to this point were carefully written out in two bound manuscript volumes, of which the first bears the title, 'Lectures