| [91] | This was written in August 1891. As it turns out, the crop of miracles at Treves has been very poor. This may be explained partly by the strong light of publicity; partly by the fact that, after all, and even in the lower classes, there has been a considerable weakening of simple faith. |
| [92] | Sís itself has not been identified. It is not to be confounded with the Sís in the interior of Cilicia. |
| [93] | “Where the skin has little feeling, so also has the mind and the soul” (Hehn, Culturpflanzen u. Hausthiere, 3rd ed., p. 472, n. 6). |
| [94] | Lucian, De dea Syria, c. 28 sq. The scoffer gravely calls the pillar a phallus. |
| [95] | See above, p. [213]. |
| [96] | Compare Leucothea, the Dioscuri, and the like. |
| [97] | The horrible rule of the Trappists is of comparatively modern origin. |
| [98] | This is the date of its composition, not of its transcription, as has been supposed. |
| [99] | This applies even to the Roman and London MSS., which are both very old. Of the latter I was able to use some years ago a transcript kindly lent me by Prof. Kleyn, of Utrecht, but in the preparation of this essay I have had only a few notes from it at my disposal. |
| [100] | The Armenians for the most part were Monophysites, and still are so except those who are “United” to the Church of Rome. |