Footnote 80:
Ibid., vol. i. p. 63.
Footnote 81:
_More Worlds than One_, pp. 97, 101.
Footnote 82:
Pp. 99, 100.
Footnote 83:
_Essay_, p. 278.
Footnote 84:
_Essay_, p. 281, 289.
Footnote 85:
Brewster, p. 60.
Footnote 86:
To descend, for a moment, to details. Sir David Brewster will not
allow himself to be driven to elect between the icy or watery
constituency of Jupiter. He declares direct experiment to have proved
that it is neither; that if Jupiter were a sphere of water, the light
reflected from his surface, when in his quadratures, must contain, as
it does _not_, a large portion of polarised light; and if his crust
consist of mountains, precipices, and rocks of ice, some of whose
faces must occasionally reflect the incident light at nearly the
polarising angle, the polarisation of their light would be distinctly
indicated. The Essayist, in his _Dialogue_, “doubts whether the remark
is applicable; for Jupiter’s watery or icy mass must be clothed in a
thick stratum of air, and aqueous vapour, and clouds. But even were
the planet free from clouds, the parts of the planet’s surface from
which polarised light would be reflected, would be only as points
compared with the whole surface; and the common light reflected from
the whole surface would quite overwhelm and obliterate the polarised
light.”—_Dial._ p. 64. We cite this as a sample of the ingenuity of
both disputants, in a point of scientific contact. Whether Sir David’s
conjectural polarised light be or be not thus obliterated, in our view
the item in dispute is quite lost in the general question, and the
great principles on which its solution depends. If driven to elect
between ice and water, asks Sir David playfully, “may we not, upon
good grounds, prefer the probable _ice_ to the possible water, and
accommodate the inhabitants of Jupiter with very comfortable quarters,
in huts of snow and houses of crystal, warmed by subterranean heat,
and lighted with the hydrogen of its waters, and its cinders not
wholly deprived of their bitumen?”—Pp. 236, 237. The answer of his
opponent would be obvious.
Footnote 87:
Brewster, p. 61.
Footnote 88:
Ibid., p. 62.
Footnote 89:
Ibid., pp. 65, 66.
Footnote 90:
Ibid., pp. 68, 69.
Footnote 91:
_Dial._, p. 6.
Footnote 92:
Ibid., p. 23.
Footnote 93:
_Dial._, p. 76.
Footnote 94:
_Museum_, &c., vol. i. p. 35.
Footnote 95:
_Dial._, p. 23.
Footnote 96:
Lord Byron—Hebrew Melodies. “The philosopher will scan,” says Sir
David, at the close of his eloquent Treatise, “with a new sense, the
lofty spheres in which he is to study.”—P. 259.
Footnote 97:
Pp. 164, 165.
Footnote 98:
Isaiah, xlv. 9.
Footnote 99:
Isaiah, lv. 8, 9.
Footnote 100:
_Essay_, p. 244.
Footnote 101:
Pp. vii.–viii.
Footnote 102:
_Essay_, pp. 243, 244.
Footnote 103:
See them specified, p. 251.
Footnote 104:
_Cosmos_, iii. 373.
Footnote 105:
Ch. viii., _passim_.
Footnote 106:
_Dial._, pp. 20–23.
Footnote 107:
_More Worlds than One_, Ch. vi., _passim_.
Footnote 108:
_More Worlds than One_, Ch. viii., _passim_.
Footnote 109:
Ibid., p. 164.
Footnote 110:
Ibid., p. 119.
Footnote 111:
_Essay_, p. 257.
Footnote 112:
_Lect. on Astron._, 2d edit. (1849.)
Footnote 113:
Pp. ix. x.
Footnote 114:
_More Worlds than One_, p. 176.
Footnote 115:
_Essay_, p. 211.
Footnote 116:
_Essay_, pp. 235–236.
Footnote 117:
_Dial._, p. 18.
Footnote 118:
_Essay_, p. 214.
Footnote 119:
Ibid., p. 216.
Footnote 120:
_More Worlds than One_, p. 215.
Footnote 121:
_Essay_, p. 298.
Footnote 122:
_More Worlds than One_, p. 315, and note.
Footnote 123:
Ibid., p. 315.
Footnote 124:
Romans, i. 22.
Footnote 125:
Matthew, vii. 26.
Footnote 126:
_Dialogue_, p. 74.
Footnote 127:
Isaiah, lxiv. 4; 1 Cor., ii. 9.
Footnote 128:
John, xiv. 2, 23.
Footnote 129:
_Dialogue_, p. 42.
Footnote 130:
_Wisdom of God in the Worlds of Creation_, vol. iii. p. 265.
Footnote 131:
_Monthly Magazine_, A.D. 1798—art. “Walpoliana.”
Footnote 132:
Matthew, vii. 24.
Footnote 133:
This must evidently mean Loufti Pasha, who was grand vizier from A.D.
1539 to 1541.
Footnote 134:
This passage may be admitted as a proof that the tribute of children
was not regularly exacted from the population of the capital. The
difficulty Mohammed the Second found in repeopling Constantinople
explains the exemption.
Footnote 135:
_Glasgow Records_, ii. 341.
Footnote 136:
Ibid., p. 343.
Footnote 137:
Ibid., p. 422.
Footnote 138:
“Gladios, pugiones sicas machæras rhomphæas acinaces fustes, præsertim
si præferrati vel plumbati sint, veruta missilia tela sclopos tormenta
bombardas balistas ac arma ulla bellica nemo discipulus
gestato.”—_Fasti Aberdonienses_, 242. The Glasgow list is less
formidable: “Nemo gladium pugionem tormenta bellica aut aliud quodvis
armorum et telorum genus gestet; sed apud præfectum omnia
deponat.”—_Instituta_, 49.
Footnote 139:
_Instituta Univ. Glasg._, p. 519, 520.
Footnote 140:
_Fasti Univ. Glasg._, p. 548.
Footnote 141:
_Hist. Univ. Paris_, iv. 266.
Footnote 142:
_Fasti_, p. 400.
Footnote 143:
Ibid., p. 400.
Footnote 144:
There was an attempt to _enforce_ returns upon religious and
educational statistics, but, in the words of the Report, “It was,
however, considered doubtful whether, upon a rigid construction, the
Census Act rendered it compulsory upon parties to afford information
upon these particulars; and the inquiry was, therefore, pursued as a
purely voluntary investigation.”—_Report_, No. 1.
Footnote 145:
“The weight of the schedules, blank enumeration-books, and other forms
despatched from the Central Office, exceeded fifty-two
tons.”—_Report_, No. 1.
Footnote 146:
LAYARD. Alexander the Great, after he had transferred his seat of
empire to the East, so fully appreciated the importance of those great
works that he ordered them to be cleansed and repaired, and
superintended the work in person, steering his boat with his own hand
through the channels. Similar operations undertaken now would again
restore to Mesopotamia its old fertility, and fit Babylon, not only
for regaining her place as the emporium of the Eastern world, but for
becoming the great entrepot of commerce between the West and East,
which will ere long, in consequence of the introduction of railways,
again flow into its old overland route by Palmyra, through the
deserts, from the Levant to the head of the Persian Gulf.
Footnote 147:
Ctesias and other writers speak of the Bactrian and Indian expedition
of Ninus and Semiramis; and in connection with this it is important to
notice, that upon the obelisk discovered at Nimroud—which belongs to
the period of the earliest palace, having been erected by the son of
the founder of that building—are represented the Bactrian camel, the
elephant, and the rhinoceros—(all animals from India and Central
Asia)—brought as tribute by a conquered people to the Assyrian king.
Footnote 148:
The Hon. James Thomason, late Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West
Provinces, who lingered too long in India, chiefly in the hope to have
been present on the occasion above commemorated.
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