On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and on the Will in Nature; Two Essays

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. On the other hand, to send a juvenile work. Like this once more into the world with all its faults and blemishes, seemed to me unjustifiable. For I am aware that the time cannot be very far Ofi when all correction will be impossible; but with that time the period of my real influence will commence, and this period, I trust, will' be a long one, for I firmly rely upon Seneca's promise Etiamsi omnibus tecum viventibus silentium livor in dixerit renient qui sine ofensa, sine gratia judicent. I have done what I could, therefore, to improve this work of my youth, and, considering the brevity and uncertainty of life, I must even regard it as an especially fortunate circumstance, to have been thus permitted to correct in my sixtieth year what I had written in my twenty-sixth.