THE END
Transcriber’s Notes
Inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, etc. (including in proper names) have been retained, except as mentioned below.
Depending on the hard- and software and their settings used to read this text, not all elements may display as intended.
As explained in the [Preface], the book contains both endnotes per chapter and footnotes. This distinction has been kept in this text, with the endnotes being numbered E1, E2, E3, ... and the footnotes having numbers 1, 2, 3, ....
Text in a dotted box has been transcribed from the illustration for the sake of legibility and completeness.
Page 85, “Machine-made tools were unknown ...: either the closing quote mark is missing, or the opening quote mark was included erroneously.
Page 169: there is a footnote marker * on this page, but no footnote.
Page 179, paragraph starting When labor was only another name ... and related foot- and endotes: several quote marks appear to be lacking.