The few notes necessary either for
better elucidation of the terms employed, or for giving account
of discoveries made while these pages were passing through the
press, may be distinguished from the author's own by the
signature "ED."
THE EDITOR.
ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN,
April 1907.
Author's Preface
During the last ten years so many works have accumulated in the
domain of Physics, and so many new theories have been propounded,
that those who follow with interest the progress of science, and
even some professed scholars, absorbed as they are in their own
special studies, find themselves at sea in a confusion more
apparent than real.
It has therefore occurred to me that it might be useful to write
a book which, while avoiding too great insistence on purely
technical details, should try to make known the general results
at which physicists have lately arrived, and to indicate the
direction and import which should be ascribed to those
speculations on the constitution of matter, and the discussions
on the nature of first principles, to which it has become, so to
speak, the fashion of the present day to devote oneself.
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