God shed his grace on thee

For these episodes are "in" language-using animals as molecular impacts are "in" gases, not as "ghosts" are in "machines".

Why in the world does the above not read as follows?

For these episodes are "in" langauge-using animals as molecular impacts are "in" gases, not as ghosts are "in" machines.

The introduction contains what would be an interesting juxtaposition if footnotes lived not at the bottom of the page but rather next to the text for which they constitute a note:

If a man chooses to bind the spirit of Hegel in the fetters of Carnap, how shall he find readers?

If a man choose to bind the spirit of Christ in the fetters of Euclid, how shall he find readers?

The first of the above produced and then reproduced by a denizen primarily of the 20thC, and the latter half at that; the second produced by someone who presumably lived somewhat earlier and then merely reproduced by the former: I wonder if he noticed, at the time of the reproduction, the salient difference, and if so, what he made of it, if anything.