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[Footnote 701:  Aristotle and Plato.  Plato was a famous Greek philosopher who flourished in the fourth century before Christ.  He was the disciple of Socrates, the teacher of Aristotle, and the founder of the academic school of philosophy.  His exposition of idealism was founded on the teachings of Socrates.  Aristotle, another famous Greek philosopher, was for twenty years the pupil of Plato.  He founded the peripatetic school of philosophy, and his writing dealt with all the then known branches of science.]

[Footnote 702:  Berkeley.  George Berkeley was a British clergyman of the eighteenth century.  He was the author of works on philosophy which are marked by extreme subjective idealism.]

[Footnote 703:  Termini.  Boundaries or marks to indicate boundaries.  In Roman mythology, Terminus was the god who presided over boundaries or landmarks.  He is represented with a human head, but without feet or arms,—­to indicate that he never moved from his place.]

[Footnote 704:  Pentecost.  One of three great Jewish festivals.  On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit descended upon the infant Christian church, with the gift of tongues.  See Acts ii. 1-20.]

[Footnote 705:  Hodiernal.  Belonging to our present day.]

[Footnote 706:  Punic.  Of Carthage, a famous ancient city, and state of northern Africa.  Carthage was the rival of Rome, but was, after long warfare, overcome in the second century before Christ.]

[Footnote 707:  In like manner, etc.  Emerson always urged that in order to get the best from all, one must pass from affairs to thought, society to solitude, books to nature.

    “See thou bring not to field or stone
       The fancies found in books;
     Leave authors’ eyes, and fetch your own,
       To brave the landscape’s look.”—­EMERSON,
          
                              Waldeinsamkeit.

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[Footnote 708:  Petrarch. (See note 563.)]

[Footnote 709:  Ariosto.  A famous Italian author of the sixteenth century, who wrote comedies, satires, and a metrical romance, Orlando Furioso.]

[Footnote 710:  “Then shall also the Son”, etc.  See 1 Corinthians xv. 28:  Does Emerson quote the passage verbatim?]

[Footnote 711:  These manifold tenacious qualities, etc.  It is remarked of Emerson that the idea of the symbolism of nature which he received from Plato, was the source of much of his pleasure in Swedenborg, the Swedish mystic philosopher.  Emerson says in his volume on Nature:  “The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as an apparition of God.”]

[Footnote 712:  “Forgive his crimes,” etc.  This is quoted from Night Thoughts by the English didactic poet, Edward Young.]

[Footnote 713:  Pyrrhonism.  A doctrine held by a follower of Pyrrho, a Greek philosopher of the third century before Christ, who founded the sceptical school.  He taught that it is impossible to attain truth, and that men should be indifferent to all external circumstances.]