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illogically to hesitate … if you write ‘a gymnosophist’ or ‘an aristocrat’ with a small letter, I do not see why the name that describes another and no more important attribute of a person should receive a different treatment. 7
    This edition thus reproduces exactly Lewis’s orthography as it appears in the 1928 Chatto and Windus edition, for as Lewis’s opening epigraph from Montaigne commands, one should ‘correct the faults of inadvertence, not those of habit’. And with that injunction in mind, this edition silently corrects also a small number of obvious typesetting errors, and a single misattribution by Lewis—where else?—to the source of his second epigraph from Montaigne.

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