"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?" Philip G. Hamerton, The Intellectual Life, (1873), 4.2, p.186.
The editor gratefully acknowledges the financial support for this project and related research that has been generously provided by SSHRC through a Standard Research Grant (2005-8) and a Connection Grant (2014),
as well as a number of internal grants partly funded by WLU operating funds and partly by SSHRC General Research Grants awarded to WLU.
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