● Transcriber’s Notes:
○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
○ Typographical errors were silently corrected.
○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only
when a predominant form was found in this book.
○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_).
○ Text that was in bold face is enclosed by equals signs (=bold=).
○ Page references printed in the margin of the book have been moved
into the paragraphs near where they appear, contained in square
brackets, and begun with the word “Sidenote”.
○ Footnotes have been moved to follow the chapters in which they are
referenced.