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The book contained innumerable typographical errors affectingspelling, punctuation and formatting. Most spelling errors havebeen corrected silently, but spelling variants that mainly reflectcontemporary spellings in the original quoted sources, have beenleft unchanged. A list ofthe corrections and variations can be seen at the end of thetranscription. Punctuation anomalies (errors, omissions, duplications)have mostly been corrected silently, but missing apostrophes havenot been corrected because of uncertainty about intended meaning. Afew missing quotation marks have been inserted within curly brackets{"} and missing words inserted by the transcriber, e.g. {sic} {and}have also been enclosed within curly brackets to differentiate themfrom the numerous words and phrases inserted by the authors. Redundant duplicatedwords have been deleted. Astute readers will probably note persistinginconsistencies involving italics, fonts, hyphenation, ellipses,accents, and ligatures (ae/æ, oe/œ) that have been left unchangedbecause they have no impact on interpretation of the text. The Tableof Contents does not correspond accurately with headings used in thetext.

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