In a previous passage (p.

79) he gave this quotation in full, in order to reproach me for silently withdrawing it in my second edition of the "Phases." He says:-- "The two sentences in small capitals are not found in the new edition of the 'Phases.' _They are struck out_.

It is no doubt the right of an author to erase in a new edition any expressions he pleases; but when he is about to charge another with having grossly garbled and stealthily misrepresented him, it is as well to let the world know _what_ he has erased and _why_.

He says that my representation of his sentiments is the most direct and intense reverse of all that he has most elaborately and carefully written.

It certainly is not the intense reverse of all that he has most elaborately and carefully _scratched out_." I exhibit here the writer's own italics.
By this attack on my good faith, and by pretending that my withdrawal of the passage is of serious importance, he distracts the reader's attention from the argument there in hand (p.