INTRODUCTION

(B)  I WISH I WAS AS ELOQUENT, DISTINCT, DETAILED, AND THOROUGH AS
DESCARTES WAS IN HIS BOOK DISCOURSE ON METHOD AND HIS
MEDITATIONS.  IN THAT BOOK HE WROTE A LETTER TO HIS (I ASSUME)
PUBLISHER SAYING HE WAS UNWILLING TO WRITE THE INTRODUCTION TO HIS
BOOK, BUT GOES ON FOR FIFTEEN PAGES AND WRITES IT ANYWAY. IN HIS
LETTER, HE STATES EVERYTHING I WOULD LIKE TO SAY TO YOU THE READER. 
I WISH I COULD DUPLICATE HIS INTRODUCTION IN THIS BOOK.  HOWEVER, I
WOULD BE ONLY BE PLAGIARIZING HIS WORK AND IT WOULD ONLY BE AN
INFERIOR COPY, NO MATTER WHAT I TRIED TO DO.

     HOWEVER, I HAVE NEVERTHELESS TRIED IN MY OWN SIMPLE STYLE,
AND HOPEFULLY WITH SOME HUMOR, TO TELL YOU WHAT I THINK I KNOW
ABOUT GOD, MYSELF, AND THE WORLD OUTSIDE MY CAVE; OR MORE
PROPERLY PUT, MY MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF THESE THINGS.

                         THOUGHTFULLY YOURS,


                              R. MARK WHITE