B1185 <=> B1187 (BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1186)

And so, after I had very attentively read over that opening chapter of the first series, which I had written in the said conditions, and when in my memory by association there had been recalled the texts of those many succeeding chapters, which, according to my conviction, ought to produce in the consciousness of the readers unusual impressions which in turn always, as is said, “engender substantial results,” I – or rather, this time, that dominant something in my common presence which now represents the sum of the results obtained from the data crystallized during my life, data which engender, among other things, in a man who has in general set himself the aim, so to say “to mentate actively impartially” during the process of responsible existence, the ability to penetrate and understand the psyche of people of various types – I decided, urged by the impulse called “love of kind” which simultaneously arose in me not to write in this conclusion anything additional and correspondent to the general aim of this first series, but to confine myself simply to appending the first of a considerable number of lectures copies of which now are in my possession and which were publicly read during the existence of the institution I had founded under the name of the Institute-for-the-Harmonious-Development-of-Man.