2. The text is that of the translation of the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione by R. H. M. Elwes, as printed by Dover Publications (NY):1955), ISBN 0-486-20250-X. This text is "an unabridged and unaltered republication of the Bohn Library edition originally published by George Bell and Sons in 1883." 3. Paragraph Numbers, shown thus [1], are from Edwin Curley's translation in his "The Collected Works of Spinoza", Volume 1, 1985, Princeton University Press; ISBN 0-691-07222-1. 4. Sentence Numbers, shown thus (1), have been added by volunteer. 5. Spinoza's endnotes are shown thus [a]. The letter is taken from Curley, see Note 3. 6. Search strings are enclosed in square brackets; include brackets. 7. HTML versions of "On the Improvement of the Understanding" are published in the Books On-Line Web Pages; ttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html and they include: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/~shalizi/Spinoza/TIE/ http://www.erols.com/jyselman/teielwes.htm End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of On the Improvement of the Understanding, by Baruch Spinoza [Benedict de Spinoza]