PREFACE.

EUREKA: AN ESSAY ON THE MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE.

BY

EDGAR A. POE.

NEW-YORK:
GEO. P. PUTNAM,
OF LATE FIRM OF “WILEY & PUTNAM,”
155 BROADWAY.
MDCCCXLVIII.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848,
By EDGAR A. POE,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.


Leavitt, Trow & Co Prs.,
33 Ann-street.

WITH VERY PROFOUND RESPECT,
This Work is Dedicated
TO
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT.