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negyricus_, Sec. 50, _Orations_, ed. 1894, p. 67. PAGE 290 [461] ~Giacomo Antonelli~ (1806-76), Italian cardinal. From 1850 until his death his activity was chiefly devoted to the struggle between the Papacy and the Italian Risorgimento. PAGE 291 [462] ~famous passage~. The _Introduction_ to his _Age of Louis XIV_. PAGE 293 [463] ~Laveleye~. See _George Sand_, _Selections_, Note 2, p. 212. [Transcriber's note: This is Footnote 336 in this e-text.] [464] ~Sir Thomas Erskine May, Lord Farnborough~ (1815-86), constitutional jurist. Arnold in the omitted portion of the present essay has quoted several sentences from his _History of Democracy_: "France has aimed at social equality. The fearful troubles through which she has passed have checked her prosperity, demoralised her society, and arrested the intellectual growth of her people. Yet is she high, if not the first, in the scale of civilised nations." [465] ~Hamerton~. See _George Sand_, _Selections_, Note 2, p. 215. [Transcriber's note: This is Footnote 340 in this e-text.] The quotation is from _Round My House_, chap, XI, ed. 1876, pp. 229-30. PAGE 294 [466] ~Charles Sumner~ (1811-74), American statesman, was the most brilliant and uncompromising of the anti-slavery leaders. PAGE 295 [467] ~Alsace~. The people of Alsace, though German in origin, showed a very strong feeling against Prussian rule in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. In September, 1872, 45,000 elected to be still French and transferred their domicile to France. PAGE 296 [468] ~Michelet~. See _George Sand_, _Selections_, Note 1, p. 195. [Transcriber's note: This is Footnote 305 in this e-text.] PAGE 298 [469] The chorus of a popular music-hall song of the time. From it was derived the word _jingoism_. For the original application of this term see Webster's _Dictionary_. [470] ~Dwight L. Moody~ (1837-99) and ~Ira D. Sankey~ (1840-1908), the famous American evangelists, held notable revival meetings in England in 1873-75. PAGE 299 [471] See, e.g., _Heine_, _Selections_, p. 129.[Transcriber's note: This approximates to the section following the text reference for Footnote 154 in this e-text.] [472] ~Goldwin Smith~. See Note 2, p. 301. PAGE 301 [473] See Milton's _Colasterion_, _Works_, ed. 1843, III, 445 and 452. [474] ~Goldwin Smith~ (1824-1910), British publicist and historian, has taken an active part in educational questions both in England and
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