AFTER the lapse of nearly twenty years, which have passed away since this little book first appeared, it was perhaps only natural that I should find much to alter in matters of detail; although the theory, and the mode of treatment, viewed upon the whole, have remained altogether the same. What I have altered, in expression and in position, is also, I hope, improved. In like manner, too, it is my desire that the brief notes appended to the main propositions of the work may not fail of their end, which is, to facilitate the progress of the reader.
The numbering of the paragraphs of each section separately, in the first edition, occasioned much prolixity in the citation of them, and a change has therefore been made in this respect.
DR. F. SCHLEIERMACHER.
BERLIN, October 1830.