Jacques Maritain Center :
The Range of Reason
FOREWORD
THIS BOOK of seventeen chapters contains ten from Raison et
Raisons, published in Paris by the Librairie Universelle de France,
and some additional essays not contained in the French edition. I
hope it has thus been possible to attain a more satisfactory degree
of unity. I hesitated to insert the short essay which constitutes
Chapter XII because it is only a first draft of some more completely
developed pages in my book Man and the State. I have
nevertheless kept it, for it seems to me to represent a logical step in the
development of the views that I express in the second part of the
present meditation on The Range of Reason.
Some of the essays gathered together here were written in
English, others in French. I am indebted to Mrs. Pierre Brodin who
helped me in revising some of the former and in translating some
of the latter. I wish to express my thanks for her cooperation and
help.
J. M.
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