[Footnote 377:  Correlative abstract.  Corresponding abstract name.  Sir Philip Sidney, himself the ideal gentleman, used the word “gentlemanliness.”  He said:  “Gentlemanliness is high-erected thoughts seated in a heart of courtesy.”]

[Footnote 378:  Gentilesse.  Gentle birth and breeding.  Emerson was very fond of the passage on “gentilesse” in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale.]

[Footnote 379:  Feudal Ages.  The Middle Ages in Europe during which the feudal system prevailed.  According to this, land was held by its owners on condition of certain duties, especially military service, performed for a superior lord.]

[Footnote 380:  God knows, etc.  Why is this particularly true of a republic such as the United States?]

[Footnote 381:  The incomparable advantage of animal spirits.  Why does Emerson regard this as of such importance?  In his journals he frequently comments on his own lack of animal spirits, and says that it unfits him for general society and for action.]

[Footnote 382:  The sense of power.  “I like people who can do things,” wrote Emerson in his journal.]

[Footnote 383:  Lundy’s Lane.  Give a full account of this battle in the War of 1812.]

[Footnote 384:  Men of the right Caesarian pattern.  Men versatile as was Julius Caesar, the Roman, famous as a general, statesman, orator, and writer.]

[Footnote 385:  Timid maxim.  Why does Emerson term this saying “timid"?]

[Footnote 386:  Lord Falkland.  Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland, was an English politician who espoused the royalist side; he was killed in battle in the Civil War.]

[Footnote 387:  Saladin.  A famous sultan of Egypt and Syria who lived in the twelfth century.  Scott describes him as possessing an ideal knightly character and introduces him, disguised as a physician and also as a wandering soldier in his historical romance, The Talisman.]

[Footnote 388:  Sapor.  A Persian monarch of the fourth century who defeated the Romans in battle.]

[Footnote 389:  The Cid.  See “Rodrigo,” in Heroism, 313.]

[Footnote 390:  Julius Caesar.  See note on “Caesarian,” 384.]

[Footnote 391:  Scipio. (See note 205.)]

[Footnote 392:  Alexander.  Alexander, King of Macedon, surnamed the Great.  In the fourth century before Christ he made himself master of the known world.]

[Footnote 393:  Pericles.  See note on Heroism, 352.]

[Footnote 394:  Diogenes. (See note 267.)]

[Footnote 395:  Socrates. (See note 187.)]

[Footnote 396:  Epaminondas. (See note 329.)]

[Footnote 397:  My contemporaries.  Emerson probably had in mind, among others, his friend, the gentle philosopher, Thoreau.]

[Footnote 398:  Fine manners.  “I think there is as much merit in beautiful manners as in hard work,” said Emerson in his journal.]