As I was reading a discussion of moral force, I suddenly came across this,
To be content with an increase without consideration of the value of the increment is not only to accumulate fictitious force, but to expose the powers, which one does possess, to be paralyzed by the congestion of an unwieldy mass. The millions of Xeroxes constituted force of tremendous extension,...I stopped, wondering what I had just read. Then I read on to the end of the sentence,
but they were of no avail against the vigorous intensity of the Greek three hundred at Thermopylae.Suddenly, all was clear! No one had transported millions of xerographic copying machines to the 19th century via a time machine. The autocorrect algorithm had no idea who Xerxes was, corrected it to 'Xeroxes', and the proofreader had missed it.
Ah! The joys of modern technology!😀
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