Transcriber’s Note:

Words may have inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged, as were obsolete and alternative spellings. The book uses spaced asterisks as ellipses.

A table of contents was added for the convenience of readers. One footnote was moved to the end of the related citation. Printing errors, such as partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added.

The following items were changed: