Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 1 of 4 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 1 of 4 No reasonable man, I suppose, could contemplate without alarm, a project for reprinting, with his name, a long series of miscellaneous papers written hastily, in the intervals of graver occupations, and published anonymously, during the long course of Forty preceding years! - especially if, before such a suggestion was made, he had come to be placed in a Situation which made any recurrence to past indiscretions, or rash judgments, peculiarly unbecoming. I expect therefore to be very readily believed, when I say that the project of this publication did not originate, and never would have originated with me: And that I have been induced to consent to it, only after great hesitation; and not without misgivings - which have not yet been entirely got over. The true account of the matter is this. The papers in question are the lawful property, and substantially at the disposal, of the publishers of the Edinburgh Review: And they, having conceived an opinion that such a publication would be for their advantage, expressed a strong desire that I should allow it to go out with the sanction of my name, and the benefit of such suggestions as I might be disposed to offer for its improvement: and having, in the end, most liberally agreed that I should have the sole power both of determining to what extent it should be carried, and also of selecting the materials of which it should be composed, I was at last persuaded to agree to the proposition: and this the more readily, in consequence of intimation having been received of a similar publication being in contemplation in the United States of America; - over which, of course, I could not, under any arrangements, expect to exercise the same efficient control. With all this, however, I still feel that I am exposed to the imputation, not only of great presumption, in supposing that any of these old things could be worth reprinting, but of a more serious Impropriety, in thus openly acknowledging, and giving a voluntary sanction to the republication (of some at least) of the following pieces: And I am far from being sure that there may not be just grounds for such an imputation. In palliation of the offence, however if such offence shall be taken - I would beg leave humbly to state, First, that what I now venture to reprint, is but a small part - less I believe than a third, - of what I actually contributed to the Review; and, Secondly, that I have honestly endeavoured to select from that great mass not those articles which I might think most likely still to attract notice, by boldness of view, severity of remark, or vivacity of expression - but those, much rather, which, by enforcing what appeared to me just principles and useful opinions, I really thought had a tendency to make men happier and better. I am quite aware of the arrogance which may be ascribed to this statement - and even of the ridicule which may attach to it. Nevertheless, it is the only apology which I now wish to make or could seriously think of making, for the present publication: And if it should be thought utterly to fail me. I shall certainly feel that I have been betrayed into an act, not of imprudence merely, but of great impropriety. I trust, however, that I shall not be driven back on so painful a conviction. The Edinburgh Review, it is well known, aimed high from the beginning: - And, refusing to confine itself to the humble task of pronouncing on the mere literary merits of the works that came before it, professed to go deeply into the Principles on which its judgments were to be rested; as well as to take large and Original views of all the important questions to which those works might relate. And, on the whole, I think it is now pretty generally admitted that it attained the end it aimed at. Many errors there were, of course and some considerable blunders: ab
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