Notes and Comment 137 



34, 28. A Boyle, an Evelyn, and a Milton. Robert Boyle 

 (1627-1691), an English chemist, is best known as the dis- 

 coverer of Boyle's law of the elasticity of air and as the founder 

 of Boyle's Lectures for the Defense of Christianity. John 

 Evelyn (1620-1706) was a secretary of the Royal Society, but 

 is remembered chiefly by his letters and diary. For Milton, see 

 note on line 6, page 30. 



34, 31. Restoration: the restoration of Charles II to the 

 English throne in 1660, after the Commonwealth of Cromwell. 



35, 3. Only. The more logical position would be before 

 among. 



35, 4-5. Unswept and ungarnished. See Luke xi, 25. 



35, 7-8. Note the studied repetition and parallelism in these 

 two lines. See also lines 1-8 on page 46. 



37, n. Blind leaders of the blind. See Matthew xv, 14.. 



37, 25. Aladdin's lamps: the source of illimitable power. 

 See Aladdin or the Wonderjul Lamp in the Arabian Nights' 

 Entertainments. 



37, 26-27. Thank God they are better. See Luke xviii, n. 



39, 10. "When in heaven the stars": from Tennyson's 

 Specimen of a Translation of the Iliad in Blank Verse (Iliad, 

 VIII, 542-561). See note on line 7, page 26. 



40, 30. " Increasing God's honor." In The Advancement 

 of Learning Bacon says that knowledge is to be pursued " For 

 the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." 



42, 2-3. The discovery of oxygen: by Joseph Priestley 

 (1733-1804) in 1774. 



42, 12. Count Rumford. Benjamin Thompson (1753-1814), 

 Count Rumford, was an American scientist and political ad- 

 venturer who spent most of his active life in England and Ger- 

 many. He was a member of the Royal Society and one of the 

 founders of the Royal Institution (see note on lines 9-10, page 

 14). He left to Harvard University funds for the establish- 

 ment of the Rumford Professorship. 



. 43. 3!-32. By worship " for the most part of the silent 

 sort." The thought, if not the form, is from Carlyle, who in his 

 Heroes and Hero-Worship constantly emphasizes the duty of 

 silence in worship and work. 



43, 32. At the altar of the Unknown. See Acts xvii, 23. 

 45, 11-12. Skepticism is the highest of duties. This is not 



an attack on religion. " The antagonism between science and 



