[167] Dr. Marvin: “Lecture on Insanity,” N. Y., 1875.
[168] Tyndall: “Fragments of Science.”
[169] Tyndall: Preface to “Fragments of Science.”
[170] Deuteronomy, chap. xvii., 6.
[171] Montesquieu: Esprit des Lois I., xii., chap. 3.
[172] C. B. Warring.
[173] Ammianus Marcellinus, xxiii., 6.
[174] The Rishis were seven in number, and lived in days anteceding the Vedic period. They were known as sages, and held in reverence like demi-gods. Haug shows that they occupy in the Brahmanical religion a position answering to that of the twelve sons of Jacob in the Jewish Bible. The Brahmans claim to descend directly from these Rishis.
[175] The fourth Veda.
[176] Orthography of the “Archaic Dictionary.”