Transcriber’s Note
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected.
Redundant chapter headings were removed.
Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been renumbered into a single sequence, collected, and placed after the Bibliography.
The Index references other books in addition to this one, so versions of this book that support hyperlinks do not contain hyperlinks to those other books.
The Index was not systematically checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Wikipedia has a short biography of William Graham Sumner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Graham_Sumner
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Page 355: The Seminole wars were fought in 1817-1818, not in 1878.
Footnote 46: “August von Sacheen” may be a misprint for “August von Sachsen.”