ON RIGHT AND WRONG BY WILLIAM SAMUEL LILLY Τοὺς ἄρα πολλὰ καλὰ θεωμένους, αὐτὸ δὲ τὸ καλὸν μὴ ὁρῶντας 94921 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1898. WESTMINSTER: PRINTED BY NICHOLS AND SONS, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET. TO THE REV. MANDELL CREIGHTON, CANON OF WORCESTER, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Cambridge. MY DEAR CREIGHTON, In writing your name here, with your kind permission, I desire not merely to offer you a token-poor and inadequate, as I know full wellof personal regard and esteem. I wish also to avail myself of an opportunity to testify my appreciation of, my gratitude for, your fruitful endeavour to raise the character of historical studies in this country. You have done much to take away the reproach, too long and too justly attaching to English scholarship, for the inadequacy of its methods and for the scantiness of its achievements, in this important field of intellectual activity. And it is a deep satisfaction to me that the chief scene of your labours is in my own University, which is so fortunate as to number you among her adopted sons. But, to say the truth, there is yet another feeling, besides friendship and gratitude, which has led me to offer you this book. Some years ago you did b |