his usual writing. Suddenly he took the very thought in our minds, "We have had enough of these boastful recitals," and with great effect exclaimed, "Then I say, Happy is the land where benefits like this have grown trite and commonplace!" Then, in a tone quiet and low, but with great flexibility, he began the second part of the lecture and gradually worked up to his finest delivery in the concluding passages.
Page 215, note 1. It is suggested in the poem-parable "Uriel" that possibly the disappearance of the archangel after his daring utterance may have been because he had
by knowledge grown too brightTo hit the nerve of feebler sight.
Page 216, note 1. Viasa, or Vyasa, the author, or compiler, of the Mahabharata.
Page 217, note 1. Compare the passage in "Aristocracy," Lectures and Biographical Sketches, on the claim a commanding talent gives to enter the superior class.
Page 219, note 1. "Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely."—
"Considerations by the Way," Conduct of Life.
Page 221, note 1. The following notes very probably were for this lecture:—
"Natural History governs science, arts, architecture, religion, philosophy, poetry.
"What Adalbert de Beaumont has taught us of exhaustless fund of suggestion which Oriental art has drawn from nature.
"Every thought must be expressed by some object in nature, and 't is the fault of metaphysics that they endeavor to express themselves in words at as many removes from nature as possible. The poet catches the thought and sculptures it by
