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little paper expression some of the view which I had been urging and had been calling pragmatism. It was received with such unlooked for kindness that I was encouraged, half a dozen years later, on the invitiation of Mr. Williams Eggleton to print it, somewhat enlarged, in the Popular Science Monthly of Nov. 1877 and Jan 1878, though it did not more that half please the editor Mr. Edward Youmans, It also appeared in a French redaction in the Revue Philosophique, Vol VI & VII 39 1879
In those medieval times I did not dare to have such a word as "pragmatism" set up in type. The authority of Mr. Principal Campbell weighed heavily upon me; and I did not yet perceive that if philosophy is to be made a science literary elegance must be sacrificed so far as to encourage, nay to require writes who have scientifically exact concepts to express, to coin new words