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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Original spelling and grammar have generally been retained, with some exceptions noted below. Original printed page numbers are shown like this: {52}. Footnotes have been relabeled 1–45. The transcriber produced the cover image and hereby assigns it to the public domain. Original page images are available from archive.org — search for “essaysscientific03spenuoft”.
- Page [81]. The table rows headed by “The Company’s soliciter” and by “Ditto in joint account with another” had a large “}” on the right side of column 3, covering both rows. In this edition, table cell borders have been drawn so as to indicate the combination of information.
- Page [157]. Inserted “of” into “dictates abstract ethics”.
- Page [198]n. “Pyschology” was changed to “Psychology”.
- Page [409]. Changed “coödinations” to “coördinations”.
- Page [471]. A left double quotation mark was added before ‘The earlier paragraphs of the conversation’.
- Page [487]. Changed “with many Americans joined with regrets that my state of health has prevented, me from” to “with many Americans, joined with regrets that my state of health has prevented me from”.
- Page [493]. The index covers all three volumes of this series of books. Volume II is available as Project Gutenburg ebook #53395; all editions of Vol. II display the original printed page numbers, corresponding to the index entries herein. Volume I is available as PG ebook #29869. Unfortunately, ebook #29869 displays the original page numbers only in the html edition. With a little html coding skill, however, one could modify the epub version to display page numbers if that is desired.
- Page [501]. In entry “Great Western Railway:” changed “III, 9;” to “III, 94;”.
- Page [509]. Changed “Philae” to “Philæ”, to agree with Volume I.
- Page [510]. The entry “Polyzoa” was moved below “Politics”, to conform with alphabetical ordering. Likewise, “Pope” was moved above “Porcupine”.
- Page [513]. Under entry “Social organism . . . analogy to individual”, changed “III, 411–6” to “III, 411–16”.