Chapter X: Part IV: Modern Evolution (9)

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Transcriber's note:

A few punctuation errors have been corrected silently.

The following corrections were made on the page indicated:

10 "Then" changed to "The" (The tendency of that school)

15 "news" changed to "new" (introducing new ones)

36 "Anaximender" changed to "Anaximander" (TABLE)

120 "95" changed to "103" (see p. 103)

124 "Renè" changed to "René" (René Descartes)

191 "Cermonies" changed to "Ceremonies" (Master of the Ceremonies)

239 "genius" changed to "genus" (of the same genus)

254 "Liebnitz" changed to "Leibnitz" (attributed to Leibnitz)

259 "we" added and "we" changed to "be" (once we let these be
weakened)

263 "pelluccid" changed to "pellucid" (the masculine and pellucid
Leviathan)

271 "Linnean" changed to "Linnæan" in the index (Linnæan Society,
famous)

278 "enthusiams" changed to "enthusiasms" (will arouse many
enthusiasms).

Otherwise this text has been preserved as in the original, including archaic and inconsistent spelling and hyphenation.