[462] famous passage.  The Introduction to his Age of Louis XIV.

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[463] Laveleye.  See George Sand, Selections, Note 2, p. 212. [Transcriber’s note:  This is Footnote 336 in this e-text.]

[464] Sir Thomas Erskine May, Lord Farnborough (1815-86), constitutional jurist.  Arnold in the omitted portion of the present essay has quoted several sentences from his History of Democracy:  “France has aimed at social equality.  The fearful troubles through which she has passed have checked her prosperity, demoralised her society, and arrested the intellectual growth of her people.  Yet is she high, if not the first, in the scale of civilised nations.”

[465] Hamerton.  See George Sand, Selections, Note 2, p. 215. [Transcriber’s note:  This is Footnote 340 in this e-text.] The quotation is from Round My House, chap, XI, ed. 1876, pp. 229-30.

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[466] Charles Sumner (1811-74), American statesman, was the most brilliant and uncompromising of the anti-slavery leaders.

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[467] Alsace.  The people of Alsace, though German in origin, showed a very strong feeling against Prussian rule in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.  In September, 1872, 45,000 elected to be still French and transferred their domicile to France.

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[468] Michelet.  See George Sand, Selections, Note 1, p. 195. [Transcriber’s note:  This is Footnote 305 in this e-text.]

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[469] The chorus of a popular music-hall song of the time.  From it was derived the word jingoism.  For the original application of this term see Webster’s Dictionary.

[470] Dwight L. Moody (1837-99) and Ira D. Sankey (1840-1908), the famous American evangelists, held notable revival meetings in England in 1873-75.

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[471] See, e.g., Heine, Selections, p. 129.[Transcriber’s note:  This approximates to the section following the text reference for Footnote 154 in this e-text.]

[472] Goldwin Smith.  See Note 2, p. 301.

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[473] See Milton’s Colasterion, Works, ed. 1843, III, 445 and 452.

[474] Goldwin Smith (1824-1910), British publicist and historian, has taken an active part in educational questions both in England and America.  The passage quoted below is from an article entitled Falkland and the Puritans, published in the Contemporary Review as a reply to Arnold’s essay on Falkland.  See Lectures and Essays, New York, 1881.