nt, in ipsas legunt qui
litteras nesciunt," says St Gregory.--_Maury, Essai sur les
Legendes_, &c., p. 104.

7 "Quoniam talis memoria quae imaginibus fovetur, non venit es cordis
amore, sed ex visionis necessitate."--_Opus illustrissimi Caroli
magni contra Synodum pro adorandis imaginibus_, p. 480, (in
18--1549),--a work of which I shall have an opportunity more amply to
speak.

8 See his chapter on the "Ill Effects of Solitude on the
Imagination"--English translation.

9 Ibid.

10 "Fleury Histoire Eccles.," lib. xxi. chap. 15.

11 The author of this sketch says himself, in a note, "Yet this
idolatry is far from having entirely disappeared. Pilgrimages, and a
devotion to certain images, but particularly to that of the Virgin,
are still continuing," &c. This was said in 1843. I wonder what he
will say now, when this idolatry is reappearing, even in those parts
of Europe where the Calvinists had, according to his expression,
struck at its very root.

12 "Essai sur les Legendes Pieuses du Moyen Age," par Alfred Maury, pp.
111, _et seq._

13 "Chateaubriand Etudes Historiques," vol. ii. p. 101.

14 "Histoire de la Destruction du Paganisme dans l'Empire d'Orient,"
par M. Chastel, Paris, 1850, p. 342 _et seq._

15 "Histoire de la Destruction du Paganisme en Occident," par A.
Beugnot, Member of the French Institute, Paris, 1835, 8vo, 2 vols.

_ 16 Translator's Note._--Was not the introduction of pagan rites into
the church the indirect way to idolatry alluded to in the text?

_ 17 Author's Note._--The festivals of the martyrs was a very large
concession made to the old manners, because all that took place
daring those days was not very edifying.

_ 18 Translator's Note._--I shall give in its proper place a more ample
account of Vigilantius.

_ 19 Author's Note._--These compromises were temporary, and the church
revoked them as soon as she believed that she could do it without
inconvenience. She struggled hard against the calends of January,
after having for a considerable time suffered these festivities; and
when she saw that she could not succeed in abolishing them, she
decided to transport the beginning of the year from the first of
January to Easter, in order to break the Pagan customs.

_ 20 Author's Note._--"The S