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Excerpt from The Principles of Morals (Being the Body of the Work), Vol. 2
The leisure afforded by a Long Vacation, singu larly free from interruptions, has given me the opportunity of completing and revising the chapters which now appear, and which contain the main body of the work. But my own share in this portion of the book has now become so preponderant, and, in the course of revision and completion, so many new questions have arisen which I never had the oppor tunity of discussing with Professor Wilson, that, though I should myself have been content simply to reverse the order of the names, it has seemed to others better that this Part should appear in my name alone. A detailed account of Professor Wil son's share in it will be found in the Advertise ment, which is printed Opposite to the Title Page. The detached and fragmentary character of the passages there enumerated is due to the cir cumstance that Professor Wilson's habits, espe cially after his health began to decline, were averse to continuous composition, and that, while I was engaged in writing the chapters, he, from time to time, sent me short paragraphs for insertion, or communicated to me orally points which he thought worthy of mention or consideration.
I may here take the opportunity of saying that the authorship of Part I was about equally distri buted. Professor Wilson's share in it is mainly represented by Chapter I, pp. 6 - 14, Chapter 3, and.
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