PREFACE.

...exchanged between Descartes and any one of his correspondents. But it is more important to restore the unity of the entire correspondence, so that the philosopher's thought appears in its continuous development; it would be irremediably fragmented if each particular correspondence were published separately. As for the relations of Descartes with various individuals, it will be easy to reconstruct them using specific tables In this context, "tables" refers to specialized indexes or tables of contents., which will be provided in as great a number as there are correspondents, in addition to the general index of all letters in the final volume.

This Correspondence requires, moreover, to be intelligible,

Messrs.

Caird, Master at Balliol College, Oxford.
Stout, Director of Mind, Professor at St. John's College, Cambridge.

W. James, Professor at the University of Cambridge (United States) The author refers here to Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts..
Schurman, Director of the Philosophical Review.

† Delbœuf, Professor at the University of Liège The cross symbol (†) indicates that the scholar had died during the preparation of this edition..

Land, Professor at the University of Leiden, editor of the Works of Spinoza.

† L. Ferri, Director of the Italian Journal of Philosophy original: "Rivista italiana di filosofia".

Grote, Director of the Review of Psychology and Philosophy.
Wassilief, President of the Physico-Mathematical Society of Kazan.

Mittag Leffler, Director of the Mathematical Deeds original: "Acta Mathematica," a prestigious international journal for mathematics., Professor at the University of Stockholm.

Avenarius, Director of the Scientific Philosophy Quarterly original: "Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie".
† Secrétan, Professor at the University of Lausanne.
Stein, Director of the Archives for the History of Philosophy original: "Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie".