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.

Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

On the Form near the beginning of the book, “Helps” was printed that way, with the “s”.

Page 189: “Earl of Shaftsbury” was printed that way.

Page 192: “ascendency” was printed that way.