view as held at present gives it a different signification from that given in the essay, viz.: The mind of men on earth is like the day which the Father of gods and men brings to them.
Page 179, note 1. The elder Pliny's dedication of his Natural History to Titus Vespasian: "I have included in thirty-six books 20,000 topics, all worthy of attention, … and to these I have made considerable additions of things which were either not known to my predecessors or which have been lately discovered. Nor can I doubt but that there still remain many things which I have omitted; for I am a mere mortal, and one that has many occupations. I have, therefore, been obliged to compose this work at interrupted intervals, indeed during the night, so that you will find that I have not been idle even during this period. The day I devote to you, exactly portioning out my sleep to the necessity of my health, and contenting myself with this reward, that while we are musing on these subjects (according to the remark of Varro) we are adding to the length of our lives; for life properly consists in being awake."
Page 180, note 1. Here follow, in the original, the words "Beauty is at home."
Page 181, note 1.
Blessed is he, who, playing deep, yet haply asks not why,Too busied in the crowded hour to fear to live or die.Quatrain, "Nature," Poems.
Page 182, note 1. A part of the song of the White Lady of Avenel in Sir Walter Scott's novel, The Abbot.
Page 184, note 1. In the essay "Aristocracy" (Lectures and Biographical Sketches), such is said to have been the practice of the Caliph Ali.
Page 185, note 1. When the lecture was first given, this
