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.

FOOTNOTE ERRATA