I wish firstly to thank Dr. Anne Ross, whose belief in the book has been unswerving, from the time when she read one of the earlier versions in 1974 to the time when she read the re-written book in 1992. Without her encouragement over the years, I would never have seen the need to re-write it, and would probably have acquiesced in the view that it would never be published.
Secondly, I wish to thank Miss. Joan Davison, who read the first version and suggested a thousand and one corrections and improvements: virtually all of which I adopted. They ranged from irritating habits of punctuation to the deletion of whole sections, which would only have bored the general reader.
Next I wish to thank Professor Herbert Richardson and The Edwin Mellen Press for their generous permission to put the book they published for me onto the Internet.
Next I wish to thank the Oxford University Press for extending the original permission of the Clarendon Press, Oxford, to quote from Professor Collingwood“s Principles of Art Book III, to cover publication on the Internet. Their permission covers “Principles of Art by Collingwood (1968) Circa 400 words. By permission of Oxford University Press. IP Number 2030304.”
Next I wish to thank the Cambridge University Press for similarly extending their original permission to cover publication on the Internet. Extracts from The Book of Common Prayer and extracts from the Authorized Version of the Bible (The King James Bible), the rights in which are vested in the Crown, are reproduced by permission of the Crown’s Patentee, Cambridge University Press. Extracts from the New English Bible © Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, 1961, 1970, by permission of the Cambridge University Press.
Next I wish to thank Mrs Thompson, who typed the original handwritten manuscript immaculately.
Lastly I wish to thank the late Richard Feachem for his kindness in offering to prepare the Index, and for his skill in doing so.