The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Part 29

Footnotes:

[1] Reprinted by permission of the Macmillan Company.

[2] Abridged from the President's address at the Dover meeting of the British a.s.sociation for the Advancement of Science, 1899.

[3] Some may already know that there is at least a third thing, argon.

[4] Without phosphorus, no thought.

[5] From _The Idea of a University_.

[6] From Macaulay's essay on Von Ranke's _History of the Popes_.

[7] Reprinted by permission of Charles Scribner's Sons.

[8] The third lecture in _Sesame and Lilies_.

[9] That no reference should be made to religious questions.

[10] I have sometimes been asked what this means. I intended it to set forth the wisdom of men in war contending for kingdoms, and what follows to set forth their wisdom in peace, contending for wealth.

[11] The translator of Marcus Aurelius whom Arnold quotes.

[12] From the _Poetical Works_ of George Meredith; copyright 1897, 1898, by George Meredith; published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.

[13] Published by the Macmillan Company, and here reprinted through their courtesy.

[14] From _Society and Solitude_.

[15] From _The Conduct of Life_.

[16] From _The Conduct of Life_.

[17] "Everything which pertains to the human species, considered as a whole, belongs to the order of physical facts. The greater the number of individuals, the more does the influence of the individual will disappear, leaving predominance to a series of general facts dependent on causes by which society exists, and is preserved."--QUETELET.