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 small in size, is weighty in import. The statements of other people are rather a mere occasion which I take as my starting-point in order to expound the fundamental truth of my doctrine more clearly there than has been done anywhere else, and to apply it all the way down even to the empirical knowledge of Nature. This I have done most exhaustively and stringently under the heading "Physical Astronomy," nor can I ever hope to find a more correct or accurate expression for the kernel of my doctrine than the one given there."

I have nothing to add to testimony thus given by Schopenhauer himself.

Berlin, March, 1867.

EDITOR'S PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION.

present Fourth Edition is an identical reprint of the Third: it therefore contains the same corrections and additions which I had already inserted in the Third Edition from Schopenhauer's own manuscript.

Berlin, September, 1877.