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[1]. See my Introduction to Count Gobineau’s “Renaissance” (Heinemann).
[2]. This dedication and the following preface apply to the whole work, of which the present volume contains the first book. The remaining books are occupied by a detailed examination of the civilizations mentioned at the end of this volume, and it is of these as well as the present book that the author is thinking, in his preface, when speaking of his imitators. A few passages in the dedication that relate exclusively to these books have been omitted.—Tr.
[3]. Amédée Thierry, La Gaule sous l’administration romaine, vol. i, p. 244.
[4]. By C. F. Weber, Lucani Pharsalia (Leipzig, 1828), vol. i, pp. 122–3, note.
[5]. Prichard, “Natural History of Man.” Dr. Martius is still more explicit. Cf. Martius and Spix, Reise in Brasilien, vol. i, pp. 379–80.
[6]. Balzac, Lettre à madame la duchesse de Montausier.
[7]. The power of the Tribunate was revived after Appius’s decemvirate in 450 B.C., but the office had been founded more than forty years before. On the other hand, consular tribunes were first elected after 450 (in 445); but the consular tribunate could hardly be described as a “great revolution.” The author may be confusing the two tribunates.—Tr.