How are the texts modified?

The texts are not dumbed down. Where a change is made, it is to make the original thought more accessible than it is on the original page. In no case have I knowingly simplified or otherwise altered the intellectual content. The changes have mainly consisted in one or more of the following:

• basic updating of language - examples
• less convoluted syntax and shorter sentences - examples
• numbering of points
• indenting of passages that are helped by such a display
• replacement of obsolete words with current ones
• replacement of still-current words used in meanings that are now obsolete - examples
• I sometimes insert, between small ·dots·, material which is a sheer addition to the text but which I think the author would have been willing to add at that point if he had seen a need for it - example
• I use •bullets to make formal aspects of the text more easily accessible - example
• Sometimes I interpose a remark or explanation of my own within [square brackets] - examples
• Sometimes I omit a passage that doesn’t earn its keep, signifying this by . . . . a four-point ellipsis, just to keep things moving along at a good pace - examples
• On a few occasions I relocate part of one paragraph in the following paragraph, where it is more at home. - example

The significances of the indentations, dots, bullets, brackets, and ellipses are explained at the start of each text.