[Q]: [ItisfiftyyearssincethefirsteditionofMauriceKendall'sVolume1appeared,soitisfittingthataneweditionseesamajorrestructuringofTheadvancedtheorythat,wehope,remainstruetohistwogoalsofpresentinga'systematictreatmentof(statistical)theoryasitexistsatthepresenttime'andkeepingthevolumesfirstandforemostasatreatmentof'statistics,notstatisticalmathematics'.]
[A]: [It is fifty years since the first edition of Maurice Kendall's Volume 1 appeared, so it is fitting that a new edition sees a major restructuring of The advanced theory that, we hope, remains true to his two goals of presenting a 'systematic treatment of (statistical) theory as it exists at the present time' and keeping the volumes first and foremost as a treatment of 'statistics, not statistical mathematics'.]
[Q]: [Itseemedtohimthenthatcapitalhadsucceeded,incomparisonwiththepast,inbridgingthegreatcontradictionbetweensurpluscapitalandeffectivedemandinsuchawayastostabilizethesystem.]
[A]: [It seemed to him then that capital had succeeded, in comparison with the past, in bridging the great contradiction between surplus capital and effective demand in such a way as to stabilize the system.]
[Q]: [ButevenintheChristianworldithasbecomeup-to-datetobelievethatthewholebusinessofChristmas,withthebabyJesusandthesongoftheangelsetc.,isasentimental,oldtraditionalsuperstitionthathasnothingatalltodowithpresent-dayreality.]
[A]:
[But even in the Christian world it has become up-to-date to believe that the whole business of Christmas, with the baby Jesus and the song of the angels etc., is a sentimental, old traditional superstition that has nothing at all to do with present-day reality.]