[755.] Article by A. Quiller in The Equinox for September 1910, p. 338.

[756.] New York Herald for September 6 and 7, 1921.

[757.] Private communication to the author.

[758.] Paul Bureau, La Crise morale des Temps nouveaux, p. 108 (1907).

[759.] Daily Mail, July 14, 1922.

[760.] Le Smorfie dell' Anima, by Mario Mariani (1919).

[761.] A leader writer in one of the most important literary Constitutional journals in this country observed to me in conversation that "all such nonsense as patriotism ought to be done away with"; another writer for the same paper told me he would not in the least regret to see the British Empire broken up.

[762.] Astolphe de Custine, La Russie en 1839, I. 149 (1843).

[763.] Essai sur la Secte des Illuminés (1792 edition), p. 48. On p. 46 de Luchet expresses his idea in a curious passaqe which I find difficult to render in English: "Il s'est formé au sein des plus épaisses ténèbres, une société d'êtres nouveaux qui se connaissent sans s'être vus, qui s'entendent sans s'être expliqués, qui se servent sans amitié. Cette société a le but de gouverner le monde...."

[764.] Ibid., p. 171.