[Transcriber’s Notes]
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
The entries in the Table of Contents for pages 389 and 391 do not have corresponding sub-headings on the referenced pages, and the sub-heading on page 85 is not mentioned in the Table of Contents.
Page [28]: “de-gradation” was printed with the hyphen; in context, this appears to be intentional.
Page [40]: “through the school” was printed as “though the school”; changed here.
Page [111]: Extraneous opening quotation mark removed before “Here, too, the”.
Page [191]: Unmatched closing quotation mark retained after “national honor and prosperity.”
Page [237]: Unmatched opening quotation mark removed before “Pastoral Association of Massachusetts”.