[40] There is reason for believing that this choice was an instance of the megalomania developed by Miss Bacon's malady. She imagined a remote kinship between herself and Lord Bacon. Possibly there may have been such kinship.
[41] Fischer, Shakespeare und die Bacon Mythen, Heidelberg, 1895.
[42] The Baconizers usually delight in berating poor Shakespeare, making much of the deer-stealing business, the circumstances of his marriage, etc.
[43] Literary Essays, ii. 163.
[44] The Bankside Shakespeare, vol. xi. p. xi.
[45] The writings of Hippocrates abound in examples, as in his interesting explanation of congestion, extravasation, etc. (De Ventis, x.-xiv., Opera, ed. Littré, tom. vi. pp. 104-114), to cite one instance out of a thousand: Επειδαν ουν ες τας παχειας και πολυαιμους των φλεβων πολυς αηρ βριση, βρισας δε μενη, κωλυεται το ἁιμα διεξιεναι τη μεν ουν ενεστηκε, τη δε νωθρως διεξερχεται, τη δε θασσον etc.
[46] Budget of Paradoxes, pp. 9, 178, 259, 260, 336.
[47] The Theory of Concentric Spheres, Louisville, 1878; second edition, 1885.
[48] Proctor, The Great Pyramid, p. 43.
[49] De Morgan, p. 179.