A STUDY AND AN ARGUMENT 66 BY DAVID SYME AUTHOR OF 99 66 London NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1903 All rights reserved PREFACE IN publishing this book I have no expectation that it will prove much of an attraction to the general reader. The utmost that I look for is that it will provoke further inquiry amongst those who, like myself, are profoundly dissatisfied with current opinion on the subjects herein. discussed. I do not profess to have done more than give an outline of my views, and that in the briefest manner possible, for to treat these thoroughly would have taken a much larger volume. The fact that these views differ widely from those generally entertained by my contemporaries may be a sin past praying for in V |