NOTICES
1. The text of this present edition reproduces faithfully that of the first (1915) which we consider the typical edition. No language variations have been applied, also where the terminology is strongly marked by time. - The correction of evident mistakes and the meaning of unusual words or expressions are always noted at the footnotes.
2. Purely formal and orthographic variations concern the punctuation (some introduced or eliminated marks where required for clarity or by syntax), some initials of words (capitalization is reduced to the minimum indispensable), or the abbreviations with periods (S. for saint; D. for don, and the like, so that they have been made as much as possible uniform).
3. Aimed at making understanding of the text easy and in order to distinguish the different topics within the chapter, subtitles, placed within square parenthesis, have been introduced. - Similarly, for reasons of uniformity, the titles of chapters and original subtitles, according to their respective order, have been made homologous by making them uniform as to types and graphic placements.
4. All the notes at the foot of the page are credited to the curator of this present edition, except those followed by MM (= Mercedes Mastrostefano, FSP).
5. The marginal numbers, in bold types, refer to the pages of the typical edition and, when these begin at the middle of a paragraph, it is accompanied by the symbol |. Such numbering ought to be adopted in all the textual quotations, and carried over in individual foreign editions. Only this remains to be the norm for all the books of the Opera Omnia of Fr. Alberione.
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Reviewed by the bishop's delegation: nihil obstat. Alba, 18 August 1915.
Can. CHIESA FRANCESCO
Delegated Reviewer.
Reviewed: Imprimatur. Alba, 19 August 1915.
Ab. MOLINO, Vicar General
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