[3] L’Habitude et l’Instinct. Baillière. Paris. 1875.
[4] As Mr. Spalding has shown. To him I am indebted for the other facts about young birds given in the text.
[5] The Unity of Nature, chap. iii.
[6] See Magazine of Natural History, vol. iv. p. 206.
[7] See Mr. Timothy Holmes’s System of Surgery, 3rd edit. vol. iii. p. 746.
[8] A Lecture delivered before the (London) Sunday Lecture Society, January 18, 1885.
[9] A second edition of Professor Cooley’s Blackstone was published in Chicago last year.
[10] Blackstone does not seem to have read either Burlamaqui or Montesquieu in French. He invariably uses the words of Nugent’s translations, which had then been recently published.
[11] This is Fox’s comment on the passage:—“How vain, then, how idle, how presumptuous is the opinion that laws can do everything! and how weak and pernicious the maxim founded upon it, that measures, not men, are to be attended to!”
[12] He is referring, however, to persecution on the Continent and by the Pope.