[1] Vol. i., Gibbon's Roman Empire, p. 256.
[2] De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, p. 33.
[3] Grote's Greece, vol. ii., pp. 319 and 320 et seq.
[4] Race and Language, p. 106.
[5] Herodotus, book viii., chap. cxliii. (Rawlinson).
[6] Herodotus, book viii., chap. cxliv. (Rawlinson).
[7] Read in this connection the address of Lord Brougham, when elected Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, delivered April 9. 1825.
[8] Speech at Oxford, Works, vol. i., p. 438.
[9] "England," says Mr. Carlyle, "before long, this Island of ours, will hold but a small fraction of the English; in America, in New Holland, east and west to the very Antipodes, there will be a Saxondom covering great spaces of the globe. And now, what is it that can keep all these together into virtually one Nation, so that they do not fall-out and fight, but live at peace, in brother-like intercourse, helping one-another? . . . Yes, this Shakspeare is ours; we produce him, we speak and think by him; we are of one blood and one kind with him. The most common-sense politician, too, if he pleases, may think of that."
[10] Green's History of the English People, vol. i., p. 91.