[Footnote 199:  Spartan.  The ancient Spartans were noted for their courage and fortitude.]

[Footnote 200:  Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.), the great Roman general, statesman, orator, and author.]

[Footnote 201:  St. Anthony (251-356), Egyptian founder of monachism, the system of monastic seclusion.]

[Footnote 202:  George Fox (1624-1691), English founder of the Society of Friends or Quakers.]

[Footnote 203:  John Wesley (1703-1791), English founder of the religious sect known as Methodists.]

[Footnote 204:  Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846), English philanthropist and abolitionist.]

[Footnote 205:  Scipio (235-184 B.C.), the great Roman general who defeated Hannibal and decided the fate of Carthage.  The quotation is from Paradise Lost, Book IX., line 610.]

[Footnote 206:  In the story of Abou Hassan or The Sleeper Awakened in the Arabian Nights Abou Hassan awakes and finds himself treated in every respect as the Caliph Haroun Al-raschid.  Shakespeare has made use of a similar trick in Taming of the Shrew, where Christopher Sly is put to bed drunk in the lord’s room and on awaking is treated as a lord.]

[Footnote 207:  Alfred the Great (849-901), King of the West Saxons.  He was a wise king, a great scholar, and a patron of learning.]

[Footnote 208:  Scanderbeg, George Castriota (1404-1467), an Albanian chief who embraced Christianity and carried on a successful war against the Turks.]

[Footnote 209:  Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632), King of Sweden, the hero of Protestantism in the Thirty Years’ War.]

[Footnote 210:  Hieroglyphic, a character in the picture-writing of the ancient Egyptian priests; hence, hidden sign.]

[Footnote 211:  Parallax, an angle used in astronomy in calculating the distance of a heavenly body.  The parallax decreases as the distance of the body increases.]

[Footnote 212:  The child has the advantage of the experience of all his ancestors.  Compare Tennyson’s line in Locksley Hall: 

    “I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.”

]

[Footnote 213:  “Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?  The sun shines to-day also.”—­EMERSON, Introd. to Nature, Addresses, etc.]

[Footnote 214:  Explain the thought in this sentence.]

[Footnote 215:  Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus.]

[Footnote 216:  Agent, active, acting.]

[Footnote 217:  An allusion to the Mohammedan custom of removing the shoes before entering a mosque.]

[Footnote 218:  Of a truth, men are mystically united; a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.]

[Footnote 219:  Thor and Woden.  Woden or Odin was the chief god of Scandinavian mythology.  Thor, his elder son, was the god of thunder.  From these names come the names of the days Wednesday and Thursday.]