Mathematical philosophy, a study of fate and freedom; lectures for educated laymen, by Cassius J. Keyser.

PREFACE
FOR more than two score years I have meditated upon
the nature of Mathematics, upon its significance in
Thought, and upon its bearings on human Life. In the
following course of lectures I have endeavored to present,
in the language current among educated men and women,
some of the maturer fruits of that study.
Though the course is designed primarily for students
whose major interest is in Philosophy, I venture to hope
that the lectures may not be ungrateful to a much wider
circle of readers and scholars:
To the growing class of such professional mathematicians as are not without interest in the philosophical
aspects of their science.
To the growing class of such teachers of mathematics
as endeavor to make the spirit of their subject dominate
its technique.
To the growing class of those natural-science students
who are interested in the logical structure and the distinctive method of mathematics regarded not only as a
powerful instrument for natural science but also and
especially as the prototype which every branch of science
approximates in proportion as its basal assumptions and
concepts become clearly defined.
To the innumerous but precious tribe of those literary
critics who know that the art of Criticism owes its first
allegiance to the eternal laws of thought.
To such psychologists as are interested either in the
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