[3] Œuv., v. 342.
[4] Boethius.
[5] See, however, above, vol. i. p. 274.
[6] Œuv., ii. 249.
[7] See Nordhoff’s Communistic Societies of the United States (London: Murray, 1875), pp. 259-293. This grave and most instructive book shows how modifiable are some of those facts of existing human character which are vulgarly deemed to be ultimate and ineradicable.
[8] Œuv., ii. 243.
[9] Hettner’s Literaturgeschichte, i. 462.
[10] The Eloge de Richardson is in Diderot’s Works, v. 212-227.
[11] The belle âme was the origin of the schöne Seele that has played such a part in German literature and life. The reader will find a history of the expression in an appendix to Dr. Erich Schmidt’s study. Richardson, Rousseau, und Goethe (Jena, 1875).
[12] La Religieuse. Œuv., v. 110.