Chapter 6

CRITICAL INVESTIGATION OF AUTHORSHIP PAGE 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

Importance of investigations of authorship--The extreme of distrust to be avoided--Criticism only a means to an end 98