DEDICATION

you bring back. Philosophy, which antiquity recognized as the most excellent gift given to the human race by the immortal God, still awaits a correcting hand original: "manum emendatricem"; Wolff refers to the need for a systematic, logical overhaul of philosophy to make it as certain as mathematics., so that mortals may reap the distinguished fruits from it. I have set my shoulders to this great burden; and so that I might make them equal to carrying it, as much as was granted to me, I have striven with the continuous study and labor of many years. Just as Euclid Euclid of Alexandria (c. 300 BCE), the Greek mathematician whose "Elements" established the deductive method of geometry. long ago reduced the principles of all mathematical science into a System, so that their unshakable truth might be clear; so, following his example