XXI.
1.—“... carnal servitude...”
It may be objected by some that details in the verse or in these notes are of too intimate a character for general narration. The notes have, however, all been taken either from widely read public prints of indisputable singleness of purpose, or works of writers of undoubted integrity. One is not much troubled as to those who would criticise further. To them may be offered the incident and words of the late Dr. Magee, who, as Bishop of Peterborough, and a member of a legislative committee on the question of child-life insurance, said:—“In this matter we have to count with two things: first, almost all our facts are secrets of the bedchamber; and, secondly, we are opposed by great vested interests. This thing is not to be done without a good deal of pain.”—(Review of Reviews, Vol. IV., p. 37).
And thus are verified, in a transcendental sense also, the words of Schiller:—
“Und in feurigem Bewegen
Werden alle Kräfte kund.”
(“Die Glocke.”)
7.—“Survival from dim age ...”
See Note XXIII., 1.