TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

Variations in spelling and hyphenation remain as in the original.

The following corrections have been made to the original text:

Page 26: Nile as a human being, with desires,[comma missing in original]

Page 113: to luxury and civilisation[original has "civilisa/tion" split across a line break without a hyphen]

Page 161: Le Conte[original has "Coute">[, Prof., quoted, 139

[139:A] Professor Joseph Le Conte[original has "Coute">[, in The Monist

In the Index, entries repeated across page breaks and columns have been removed.