the present material exhausts all the known literary remains
deemed worthy of publication. Practically all the material from
Mr. Mead's own hand was used; the remaining fragments are
in the possession of the Department of Philosophy of the Uni-
versity of Chicago.

The long Introduction is not so much an introduction (though
the first and last sections help fulfil this function) as an attempt
to sketch the wider contours and implications of Mr. Mead's
thought and to drop a plumb line into some of the intellectual
depths which he sounded. It is hoped later to publish in one
volume all of Mr. Mead's writings which were published during
his lifetime.

Many willing hands have helped in the preparation of the
material. This volume, in common with Mind, Self, and So-
ciety, and Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century, was
made possible by Dr. Henry C. A. Mead and Dr. Irene Tufts Mead
. We are also indebted to them for the biographical notes
and the photograph used as the Frontispiece. Dr. Estelle Allen
DeLacy, Miss Caroline Claiborne, Miss Gertrude Morris, and
Mrs. C. W. Morris contributed greatly to the preparation of
the typescript. Mr. Milton B. Singer, with the help of Mr.
John Parshall, prepared the Index and, in addition, offered
valuable comments on the Introduction in various stages of its
development. Dr. Eugene Freeman and Mrs. J. M. Brewster
read page proof. The assistance of such persons was in some
cases made possible by the Committee on Humanistic Research
of the University of Chicago, the Department of Philosophy, and
the National Youth Administration. Mr. Donald P. Bean, Miss
Mary D. Alexander, Miss Mary Irwin, and other members of
the University of Chicago Press have contributed the same
friendly care and fine workmanship to this volume which they
contributed to its predecessors.

THE EDITORS

December 1937

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