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Elements of Metaphysics
A. E. TAYLOR
Late Professor of Moral Philosophy
in the University of Edinburgh
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TO
F. H. BRADLEY
In heartfelt acknowledgment of all that
his example and his writings have been
to the men of my generation
Ante Ararim Parthus bibet, aut Germania Tigrim,
Quam nostro illius labatur pectore vultus.