Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
Incorrect page references in the [Table of Contents] were corrected.
The [index] was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
[Page 78]: “fifty century” probably is an error for “Fifth century”.
[Page 287]: Quotation beginning “the spur of all” has no ending quotation mark.
Footnote numbers in this eBook were made unique by prefixing the original Arabic numbers with the Roman chapter numbers.