140 Notes and Comment 



(1776-1831), a German historian, reconstructed our ideas of 

 ancient history in his History of Rome. Edward Gibbon 

 (1737-1794), the English historian, did an equal service for 

 later Roman history in his Decline and Fall of the Roman 

 Empire. George Grote (1794-1871), also an Englishman, 

 wrote an authoritative History of Greece. Huxley com- 

 mended the example of Grote and Faraday in declining all 

 titular honors offered them by the government. 



65, 13-14. Cicero, or Horace. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106- 

 43 B.C.), the Roman critic, orator, and philosopher, is here 

 cited as the exemplar of the purest Latin prose, and Quintus 

 Horatius Flaccus (65-8 B.C.) as the poet of the purest lyric 

 style in Roman literature. 



65, 14. Sixth form: the senior class in an English public 

 school. 



65, 15. Terence. Publius Terentius Afer (185-159 B.C.) was 

 the master of Latin comedy. 



65, 30. Parnassus: classical studies. Parnassus, a mountain 

 ridge in Greece, was the fabled abode of the Muses. 



66, 22. These be your gods. See Exodus xxxii, 4. 



66, 27. This is the stone he offers. See Matthew <vii, g. 



66, 3i.This is an awful subject: perhaps a reminiscence of 

 Burke's "Surely it is an awful subject" (beginning of the 

 second paragraph of his speech on Conciliation ivith America. 



67, 3. Rector of Lincoln College: Mark Pattison (1813- 

 1884), referred to below. 



69, 17-19. Grote . . . Mill . . . Faraday . . . Robert 

 Brown . . . Lyell . . . Darwin. For Grote, see note on 

 line 3, page 64. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), a celebrated 

 English logician and political economist. Michael Faraday 

 (1791-1867), an English chemist, famous for his discoveries in 

 electricity and magnetism. Robert Brown (1773-1858), an 

 English botanist. Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), an English 

 geologist, author of Principles of Geology, Elements of Geol- 

 ogy, and The Antiquity of Man. For Darwin, see note on line 

 8, page 21. 



70, 34. La carriere ouverte aux talents. " For I take it 

 that the real essence of democracy was fairly enough defined 

 by the First Napoleon when he said that the French Revolu- 

 tion meant ' la carriere ouverte aux talents ' a clear path- 

 way for merit of whatever kind" (Lowell's Democracy). 



