As suggested by the title, Volume II of John O'Loughlin's Collected Essays is effectively the converse of the first volume, insofar as its essayistic contents, derived from four prior publications, are much more orientated towards truth than simply rooted, scholar-wise, in knowledge, and it was this new-found and hard-won confidence in his capacity to expand knowledge truthfully, more independently of scholarly reference or literary citations than before, that made much of these writings possible. - A Centretruths editorial