TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
C. T. (Charles Thomas) Campion translation
I made several hyphenation choices, mostly forced by de-hyphenation at the ends of lines:
1. world-theory
2. overcoming
3. self-regarding
4. never-concentrated
5. over-organization
6. over-valuation
7. self-importance
8. rococo-ministers
9. non-existence
In addition, on page 5 of the .pdf file on Internet Archive, the display of this page was corrupted in my copy. As pointed out by an editor, this has been corrected in the current version at Internet Archive.
On page 84 the word "not" in the sentence: "The rulers, small and great alike, did not act in accordance with the spirit of the age."" was changed to "[nothing but]". The original German is: "Die kleinen und die großen Regierenden taten nichts anderes, als daß sie im Geiste der Zeit handelten." Google Translate (4/25/2025) renders this as: "The small and the big rulers did nothing other than act in the spirit of the times." The printed sentence in the book is either a typo or a mis-translation. It does not fit the sense of the author who means that the rulers themselves are not to blame for the collapse of civilization but rather it is the fault of the "spirit of the age".