Precaution

"Precaution" makes sense when the cost of error is large and the cost of precaution is small.

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"Precaution" was published on the 25th of August, 1820, and "The Spy" on the 17th of September, 1821.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

"Precaution" in Townsend's edition, relates that a distinguished man of letters, between whom and Cooper an unhappy coolness had for some time existed, after reading "The Pathfinder," remarked, -- "They may say what they will of Cooper, the man who wrote this book is not only a great man, but a good man."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

Cooper's first novel, "Precaution," was published when he was in his thirty-first year.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

"Precaution," though an indifferent novel, was yet a novel; of the orthodox length, with plot, characters, and incidents; and here and there

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

"Precaution," than which no British novel could be duller.

American Men of Mind Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

United States navy, 1808-11, when he resigned his commission; published first novel, "Precaution," anonymously, 1820, and followed it with many others; died at Cooperstown, New York, September 14, 1851.

American Men of Mind Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

"Precaution" (1820) was the result, but whether it was better than the unknown English book, no one can now say.

The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Bliss Perry 1907

It is of record that the windows of the room in which he wrote "Precaution," "The Spy," and "The Pioneers" overlooked this enchanting vista which then and later claimed place in his books.

James Fenimore Cooper 1901

In its plan and development "Precaution" was a compromise between the purely fashionable novel and that collection of moral disquisitions of which Hannah More's Coelebs was the great exemplar, and still remained the most popular representative.

James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury 1876