[512] Quoted in The Veil of Isis, Reade, W. W., p. 47.
[513] Wilkie, James, Saint Bride, the Greatest Woman of the Celtic Church.
[514] Nonnus, quoted from A Dissertation on The Mysteries of the Cabiri, Faber, G. S., vol. ii., p. 313.
[515] Huyshe, W., The Life of St. Columba, p. 247.
[516] Canon ffrench, Prehistoric Faith and Worship, p. 56.
[517] Hughes, T., The Scouring of the White Horse, p. 111.
[518] Apart from recent experiences and the records of the Saxon invaders of this country, one may connote the candid maxims of the Frederick upon whom the German nation has thought proper to confer the sobriquet of “Great,” e.g.:—
“It was the genius of successive rulers of our race to be guided only by self-interest, ambition, and the instinct of self-preservation.”
“When Prussia shall have made her fortune, she will be able to give herself the air of good-faith and of constancy which is only suitable for great States or small Sovereigns.” “As for war, it is a profession in which the smallest scruple would spoil everything.”
“Nothing exercises a greater tyranny over the spirit and heart than religion.... Do we wish to make a treaty with a Power? If we only remember that we are Christians all is lost, we shall always be duped.”