For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Any debut novel is usually a case of spitting into the wind - or, just maybe, casting your bread upon the waters. Without an established audience in place, first-time authors have to hope for resonant word of mouth and a receptive reviewer or three.
Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.
Existence precedes and rules essence.