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INDEPENDENTS , in religion, a name used in the 17th century for those holding to the autonomy of each several church or congregation, hence otherwise known as Congregationalists. " And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass." Table was the usual English word, and index was not thoroughly naturalized until the beginning of the 17th century, and even then it was usual to explain it as " index or table." By the present English usage, according to which the word " table " is reserved for the summary of the contents as they occur in a book, and the word " index " for the arranged analysis of the contents for the purpose of detailed reference, we obtain an advantage not enjoyed in other languages; for the French table is used for both kinds, as is indite in Italian and Spanish. There is a group of words each of which has its. distinct meaning but finds its respective place under the general heading of index work
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Bentley 's Dissertation on the Epistles of Phalaris (1698). k``?To serve its purpose well, an index to a book must be compiled with care, the references being placed under the heading that the reader is most likely to seek. An index should be one and indivisible, and not broken up into several alphabets; thus every work
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Mill on Liberty on the Floss actually occurred in a catalogue. But in modern times there 1 Another old word occasionally used in the sense of an index is " pye." Sir T. Duffus Hardy
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the foundation in 1877 in England of the Index Society; and the growth of great libraries has given a stimulus to this method of making it easy for readers and researchers to find a ready reference to the facts or discussions they require. Not only has it become almost a sine qua non that any good book must have its own index, but the art of indexing has been applied to those books which are really collections of books (such as the Encyclopaedia Britannica), to a great newspaper like the London Times, and to the cataloguing of great libraries themselves. The work in these more elaborate cases has been enormously facilitated by the modern devices by means of which separate
There are numerous books on Indexing, but the best for any one who wants to get a general idea is H. B. Wheatley's How to make an Index (1902). End of Article: INDEPENDENTS If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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