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Transcriber’s note:

      Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_).

      The table of contents is unusual. Seven of the topics in the
      table do not refer to chapters but rather to sections of text
      between chapter headings. The book contains two chapter
      headings not listed in the table of contents. An editorial
      decision was made to le