Carlyle says: 

     “The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.”

]

[Footnote 157:  Chaos ([Greek:  Chaos]), the confused, unorganized condition in which the world was supposed to have existed before it was reduced to harmony and order; hence, utter confusion and disorder.]

[Footnote 158:  These, i.e., children, babes, and brutes.]

[Footnote 159:  Four or five.  Supply the noun.]

[Footnote 160:  Nonchalance, a French word meaning indifference, coolness.]

[Footnote 161:  Pit in the playhouse, formerly, the seats on the floor below the level of the stage.  These cheap seats were occupied by a class who did not hesitate to express their opinions of the performances.]

[Footnote 162:  Eclat, a French word meaning brilliancy of success, striking effect.]

[Footnote 163:  “Lethe, the river of oblivion.”—­Paradise Lost.  Oblivion, forgetfulness.]

[Footnote 164:  Who.  What is the construction?]

[Footnote 165:  Nonconformist, one who does not conform to established usages or opinions.  Emerson considers conformity and consistency as the two terrors that scare us from self-trust. (See note 182.)]

[Footnote 166:  Explore if it be goodness, investigate for himself and see if it be really goodness.

“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” 
PAUL, I.  Thes. v. 21.

]

[Footnote 167:  Suffrage, approval.

“What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? 
Thrice is he arm’d that hath his quarrel just;
And he but naked, though lock’d up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.” 

                                    SHAKESPEARE, II.  Henry VI., III. 2.

]

[Footnote 168:  “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” Hamlet, II. 2.]

[Footnote 169:  Barbadoes, an island in the Atlantic Ocean, one of the Lesser Antilles.  The negroes, composing by far the larger part of the population, were formerly slaves.]

[Footnote 170:  He had rather have his actions ascribed to whim and caprice than to spend the day in explaining them.]

[Footnote 171:  Diet and bleeding, special diet and medical care, used figuratively, of course.]

[Footnote 172:  Read Emerson’s essay on Greatness.]

[Footnote 173:  The precise man, precisely what kind of man.]

[Footnote 174:  “By their fruits ye shall know them.”—­Matthew, vii. 16 and 20.]

[Footnote 175:  With, notwithstanding, in spite of.]

[Footnote 176:  Of the bench, of an impartial judge.]

[Footnote 177:  Bound their eyes with ... handkerchief, in this game of blindman’s-buff.]

[Footnote 178:  “Pin thy faith to no man’s sleeve; hast thou not two eyes of thy own?”—­CARLYLE.]