[Footnote 253:  Sir Isaac Newton. (See note 53.)]

[Footnote 254:  Scipio. (See note 205.)]

[Footnote 255:  Phidias (500?-432?  B.C.), famous Greek sculptor.]

[Footnote 256:  Egyptians.  He has in mind the pyramids.]

[Footnote 257:  The Pentateuch is attributed to Moses.]

[Footnote 258:  Dante (1265-1321), the greatest of Italian poets, author of the Divina Commedia.]

[Footnote 259:  Foreworld, a former ideal state of the world.]

[Footnote 260:  New Zealander, inhabitant of New Zealand, a group of two islands lying southeast of Australia.]

[Footnote 261:  Geneva, a city of Switzerland, situated at the southwestern extremity of Lake Geneva.]

[Footnote 262:  Greenwich nautical almanac.  The meridian of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, near London, is the prime meridian for reckoning the longitude of the world.  The nautical almanac is a publication containing astronomical data for the use of navigators and astronomers.  What is the name of the corresponding publication of the U.S.  Observatory at Washington?]

[Footnote 263:  Get the meaning of these astronomical terms.]

[Footnote 264:  Plutarch. (50?-120?  A.D.), Greek philosopher and biographer, author of Parallel Lives, a series of Greek and Roman biographies.  Next after Shakespeare and Plato he is the author most frequently mentioned by Emerson.  Read the essay of Emerson on Plutarch.]

[Footnote 265:  Phocion (402-317 B.C.), Athenian statesman and general.  (See note 364.)]

[Footnote 266:  Anaxagoras (500-426 B.C.), Greek philosopher of distinction.]

[Footnote 267:  Diogenes (400?-323?), Greek cynic philosopher who affected great contempt for riches and honors and the comforts of civilized life, and is said to have taken up his residence in a tub.]

[Footnote 268:  Henry Hudson (——­ — 1611), English navigator and explorer, discoverer of the bay and river which bear his name.]

[Footnote 269:  Bering or Behring (1680-1741), Danish navigator, discoverer of Behring Strait.]

[Footnote 270:  Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855), English navigator and Arctic explorer.]

[Footnote 271:  Sir John Franklin (1786-1846?), celebrated English navigator and Arctic explorer, lost in the Arctic seas.]

[Footnote 272:  Christopher Columbus (1445?-1506), Genoese navigator and discoverer of America.  His ship, the Santa Maria, appears small and insignificant in comparison with the modern ocean ship.]

[Footnote 273:  Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France, one of the greatest military geniuses the world has ever seen.  He was defeated in the battle of Waterloo by the Duke of Wellington, and died in exile on the isle of St. Helena.  Emerson takes him as a type of the man of the world in his Representative Men:  “I call Napoleon the agent or attorney of the middle class of modern society....  He was the agitator, the destroyer of prescription, the internal improver, the liberal, the radical, the inventor of means, the opener of doors and markets, the subverter of monopoly and abuse....  He had the virtues of the masses of his constituents:  he had also their vices.  I am sorry that the brilliant picture has its reverse.”]