A Supplement to the Second Edition of the Methods of Ethics

Excerpt from A Supplement to the Second Edition of the Methods of Ethics
In this third edition I have again made extensive alterations, and introduced a considerable amount of new matter. Some of these changes and additions are due to modifications of my own ethical or psychological views; but I do not think that any of these are of great importance in relation to the main subject of the treatise. And by far the largest part of the new matter introduced has been written either (l) to re move obscurities, ambiguities, and minor inconsistencies in the exposition of my views which the criticisms 1 of others or my own reflection have enabled me to dis cover; or (2) to treat as fully as seemed desirable certain parts or aspects of the subject which I had either passed over altogether or discussed too slightly in my previous editions, and on which it now appears to me important to explain my opinions, either for the greater completeness of my treatise, - according to my own view of the subject, - or for its better adaptation to the present state of ethical thought in England.
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