4. _The mystical foundation of its
authority._--Montaigne, _Essais_, iii, 13. See also ii, 12.

[116] P. 85, l. 2. _The wisest of legislators._--Plato. See _Republic_,
ii, 389, and v, 459.

[117] P. 85, l. 4. _Cum veritatem_, etc.--An inexact quotation from St.
Augustine, _De Civ. Dei_, iv, 27. Montaigne, _Essais_, ii, 12.

[118] P. 85, l. 17. _Veri juris._--Cicero, _De Officiis_, iii, 17.
Montaigne, _Essais_, iii, I.

[119] P. 86, l. 9. _When a strong man_, etc.--Luke xi, 21.

[120] P. 86, l. 26. _Because he who will_, etc.--See Epictetus, _Diss._,
iii, 12.

[121] P. 88, l. 19. _Civil wars are the greatest of evils._--Montaigne,
_Essais_, iii, 11.

[122] P. 89, l. 5. _Montaigne._--_Essais_, i, 42.

[123] P. 91, l. 8. _Savages laugh at an infant king._--An allusion to a
visit of some savages to Europe. They were greatly astonished to
see grown men obey the child king, Charles IX. Montaigne,
_Essais_, i, 30.

[124] P. 92, l. 8. _Man's true state._--See Montaigne, _Essais_, i, 54.

[125] P. 95, l. 3. _Omnis ... vanitati._--Eccles. iii, 19.

[126] P. 95, l. 4. _Liberabitur._--Romans viii, 20-21.

[127] P. 95, l. 4. _Saint Thomas._--In his Commentary on the Epistle of
St. James. James ii, 1.

[128] P. 96, l. 9. _The account of the pike and frog of Liancourt._--The
story is unknown. The Duc de Liancourt led a vicious life in
youth, but was converted by his wife. He became one of the firmest
supporters of Port-Royal.

[129] P. 97, l. 18. _Philosophers._--The Stoics.

[130] P. 97, l. 24. _Epictetus._--_Diss._, iv, 7.

[131] P. 97, l. 26. _Those great spiritual efforts_, etc.--On this, and
the following fragment, see Montaigne, _Essais_, ii, 29.

[132] P. 98, l. 3. _Epaminondas._--Praised by Montaigne, _Essais_, ii,
36. See also iii, 1.

[133] P. 98, l. 17. _Plerumque gratae principibus vices._--Horace,
_Odes_, III, xxix, 13, cited by Montaigne, _Essais_, i, 42. Horace
has _divitibus_ instead of _principibus_.

[134] P. 99, l. 4. _Man is neither angel nor brute_, etc.--Montaigne,
_Essais_, iii, 13.

[135] P. 99, l. 14. _Ut sis contentus_, etc.--A quotation from Seneca.
See Montaigne, _Essais_, ii, 3.

[136] P. 99, l. 21. _Sen._ 588.--Seneca, _Letter to Lucilius_, xv.
Montaigne, _Essais_, iii, I.

[137] P. 99, l. 23. _Divin._--Cicero, _De Divin._, ii, 58.

[138] P. 99, l. 25. _Cic._