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| SECTION I.—EXTERNAL CRITICISM | |
| CHAPTER II | |
| TEXTUAL CRITICISM | |
| Errors in the reproduction of documents: their frequency under the most favourable conditions—Mistakes of copyists—"Sound" and "corrupt" texts | 71 |
| Necessity of emendation—The method subject to fixed rules | 73 |
| Methods of textual criticism: ( a ) original preserved; ( b ) a single copy preserved, conjectural emendation; ( c ) several copies preserved, comparison of errors, families of manuscripts | 75 |
| Different degrees of difficulty of textual criticism: its results negative—The "emendation game"—What still remains to be done | 83 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| CRITICAL INVESTIGATION OF AUTHORSHIP | |
| Natural tendency to accept indications of authorship—Examples of false attributions—Necessity of verification—Application of internal criticism | 87 |
| Interpolations and continuations—Evidence of style | 92 |
| Plagiarism and borrowings by authors from each other—The filiation of statements—The investigation of sources | 93 |
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