Franz Brentano AUTHOR'S PREFACE CONTENTS A LECTURE NOTES APPENDIX I APPENDIX II Every attempt has been made to replicate the original as printed. Some typographical errors have been corrected; a list follows the text. Author’s Preface Contents A Lecture Notes Appendix I Appendix Ii (etext transcriber's note)

THE   ORIGIN
  OF   THE   KNOWLEDGE   OF
RIGHT   AND   WRONG

THE ORIGIN
OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF
RIGHT AND WRONG

BY FRANZ BRENTANO

ENGLISH TRANSLATION
BY CECIL HAGUE
FORMERLY LECTOR AT
PRAGUE UNIVERSITY

With a Biographical Note


WESTMINSTER
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO Ltd
2 WHITEHALL GARDENS
1902


Butler & Tanner,
The Selwood Printing Works,
Frome, and London.

THE present translation owes its origin to a desire on the part of the translator of bringing to the wider notice of his fellow-countrymen a work which has proved beneficial and stimulating to himself. Written during short intervals of leisure while studying with Professor Anton Marty of Prague University, it has had the advantage of his careful and constant supervision. Without his aid it would scarcely have seen the light. The translator has especially to thank Professor S. A. Alexander, of Owens College, Manchester, for his valuable help in the general revision and the translation of several difficult passages. It is now, alas, too late to do more than record the translator’s debt to the late Professor Adamson, of Glasgow University, whose revision and correction of this essay was one of the last services rendered to the cause of truth by a life-long disciple.

West Dulwich, 1902.