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 that makes the author’s meaning clearer or more explicit - example
• I use •bullets to make formal aspects of the text more easily accessible - example
• 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
• Sometimes I interpose a remark or explanation of my own in small type within [square brackets] - examples
• Sometimes I replace a passage in the original text by a briefer and/or clearer description of its main content. These replacements are in normal-sized type and within [square brackets] - example

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