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The Proper Study of Mankind

1. UK and US editions

Corrections in pink boxes apply only to the first Chatto impression; those in green boxes are needed in the first Pimlico impression
and (except for that for p. 660) in all Farrar, Straus and Giroux editions; those in white boxes are needed in all editions
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iv 3–5 These lines are inaccurate: follow later impressions

2 In the second Chatto impression the 1 has not been deleted
vii note Delete existing note p. 196 below.
x note Delete existing note p. 197 below.
xi 18 up nineteenth eighteenth
xvi–xxi
Move preface on one page and adjust running heads
old xvi  9 readership. readership. The importance of his central ideas is hard to exaggerate.
old xvi last take over to old xvii and reduce space above and below centered asterisk at foot of page
xxx 10 up Fichte J. G. Fichte
xxxi 1 which lives the values around which lives [corrected in paperback and US editions]
xxxiii 12 by by,


with with,
3 5 up moon sun
107-8 last–first practical-corrective, deterrent, hortatory purposes practical – corrective, deterrent, hortatory – purposes
111 5 find its finds it
112 7 up du de
117 18 up a nothing nothing
141
 n. 1, 3
 voluntary
 voluntary and involuntary

n. 1, 19 yet were yet they were
222
 4 up
 August
 Auguste
223 16 today, what today what
229 21 becomes become
242 2 up it such a need
256 5 up economists oeconomists,
337 5 of or
347
 note 2, 4
 caprice’.
 caprice’
390 note, 4 up to mean not not to mean
403 12 up [sich hineinfühlen] into into [sich hineinfühlen]
443 note Delete existing note P. A. Vyazemsky, ‘Vospominaniya o 1812 god’, Russkii arkhiv 7 (1869), columns 181–92, 01–016, esp. columns 185–7.
457 last Fili Letashevka
477 note 4, 3 up swing back and forth as do are in equilibrium, as are
524 12 insert note cue ‘1’ after ‘... real goods we have,’ ’

19 1 2

notes add new note 1: ‘Sobranie sochinenii, vol. 16, p. 135.’ and renumber previous note 1 as note 2
545 5 up felt guilt for still lusting no longer lusted so
601 note Delete existing note loc. cit. (p. 256 above, note 2).
638–44
Use updated version
646
Baudoin
 Baudouin

s.v. Belinsky Vissarion Vissarion Grigorievich
647
Büchner, Georg, Büchner, Ludwig,
650 s.v. Eisenstein Sergei Sergey
656 s.v. Lenin Ilich Il’ich
658 s.v. Mickewicz Mickiewicz
660 s.v. Pascal, Roy 521n 421n
660 s.v. Perisev Pertsev [and move to follow Pertinax]
661 s.v. Delete Poulet entry and increase space above and below q section to compensate
661 s.v. Pushkin S. Sergeevich
662 s.v. Samarin Yuri Yury
665 s.v. Tolstoy, Count Lev [...]; War and Peace 439–42 439–43

2. US editions

The correction with a pink background applies only to the first Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback edition


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i 2 delete ‘Andreapol’ and add ‘, in Petrograd,’ after ‘1917’
xv note add note cue ‘1’
639–44
Update as specified above for 638–44, mutatis mutandis

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