POST-PRANDIAL
PHILOSOPHY


By GRANT ALLEN


AUTHOR OF
"THE EVOLUTIONIST AT LARGE," ETC.

LONDON: CHATTO & WINDUS
1894




PREFACE


These Essays appeared originally in _The Westminster Gazette_, and have
only been so far modified here as is necessary for purposes of volume
publication. They aim at being suggestive rather than exhaustive: I
shall be satisfied if I have provoked thought without following out each
train to a logical conclusion. Most of the Essays are just what they
pretend to be--crystallisations into writing of ideas suggested in
familiar conversation.

G. A.

Hind Head, _March_ 1894.