Acknowledgments

Thanks to everyone who helped to see this book through to completion, and especially to my beautiful, gracious, and loving wife, Hannah. Zachary, Hannah Grace, Hillary, Lucy and Sophie: “All My Love.” Thank you, Lisa and Michael, John and Patricia, for your generous hospitality through the years. I owe a heavy debt of gratitude to George Reisch and David Ramsay Steele at Open Court for their editorial assistance, patience, and invaluable advice. Thanks to John Stone-Mediatore and Emma Rees for their help with the first appendix. Thanks to the staff and volunteers at the Meher Spiritual Center in South Carolina, a special place for renewal, inspiration and philosophical contemplation. Finally, I am pleased to acknowledge generous financial support from the Office of the Provost at Ohio Wesleyan University for preparation of the index, and Alfred Publishing for their kind permission to use the lyrics.