TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.

This is an English translation of the Chinese version available at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24098.

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Textual notes:

  1. Chapter labels have been added in braces (e.g. [Chapter 1]).
  2. Footnotes have been moved to the end of each chapter. As a result, page numbers were not preserved for each page. The page numbers contained in the index link to a paragraph in the text or to the start of a footnote.
  3. Word spellings have been standardized. Words within direct quotations by other authors have been left unchanged.
  4. Some page numbers in the index were corrected.