Chapter 1, Introductions Summary and Analysis

This book is rather mammoth. The book begins with introductory materials. The most prominent feature is that the author is one of those people who lived across two centuries: the 19th and the 20th. While this is a somewhat artificial relationship to time, it is real enough because the psychology of those involved were oriented to this very calendar. The book is constructed using a set of fonts. Each of these clarifies the sources used. Not everything is distinguished one from another, but the printers and publishers have facilitated a more natural sense for making distinctions through the use of the fonts. In the beginning, of course, the organization of the work is not entirely clear. However, within the first hundred pages of the text, the method begins to become perceptible within the proverbial madness or chaos. The author...