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Transcriber's Note:

Due to an accusation of libel, some pages had to be rewritten and reprinted before the book was bound. Pages 1-24 were not printed and are missing from the original. See the [Preface] for more information.

The original uses two kinds of blockquotes--one type has words in a smaller font, and the other uses extra white space before and after the quotation. The transcriber has used wider margins to represent the smaller font and higher line heights to represent the quotations with extra white space.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. A complete list as well as other notes can be found [after] the text.

A row of asterisks represents an ellipsis in a poetry quotation.

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