I am not either attacking or defending Evolution. Throughout this preface boys means boys and girls, and schoolmasters includes schoolmistresses.
English scholars disagree on the proper method of editing the works of a modern author.
In brief, some insist on printing exactly what the author wrote regardless of whether it contains errors or not. Others maintain that an editor's job is to print what he thinks the author intended. Hooper, Preface to Selected Literary Essays , by C. S. Lewis, p. xvii. We finished Book 7 of The Pilgrim's Regress . What a profound experience and edifying example.