Excerpt from Philosophical Discussions

Chauncey Wright died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the 12th of September, 1875, aged forty-five years.

His name was not widely known. He had written comparatively little. A few essays by him on scientific subjects had appeared in "The Mathematical Monthly," and the "Memoirs" and "Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences"; he had contributed several articles, mostly upon philosophical topics, to the "North American Review," and he had printed numerous briefer papers in "The Nation." His work gave evidence not only of a mind of rare power and unusual balance, but also of wide acquisitions and thorough intellectual discipline, and he had won recognition from competent judges as a philosophical thinker of a high order, from whom much was to be expected.

To collect his principal writings, and to present them in a form accessible to students was a duty to his memory, and in the interest of philosophy. Fragmentary, as of necessity such a collection must be, and but imperfectly representative of the scope of the author"s mind, the general character of his philosophical opinions and method may clearly enough be learned from it.

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