The capital need not be selected when the principle or attribute does not decidedly represent active agency. War, Slavery, Intemperance, and similar words are erroneously capitalized when they are passive or objects of action. The capital should be suppressed when the words are not intended as synonyms of personified forces.
CAPITALS IN QUOTATIONS
In the text, all quotations that are intended to be emphatic, or that consist of a complete sentence, should always begin with a capital, as:
- Then Elijah said, Thou art the man.
- The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.
A fragmentary quotation needs no capital, but it is the common practice to inclose all short quotations in the ordinary quotation-marks, as:
- The " carriage," so called, was really a wagon.
- The writer's account was described as " marked by accuracy and fairness."
CAPITALS AS A MEANS OF DISPLAY
In all job-work and in some newspapers and magazines capitals may be used more freely than in good book-work. The writers of advertisements, pamphlets, and circulars use capital letters as a
