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Footnotes

{0} _The Coming of Love and Other Poems_, by Theodore Watts-Dunton (John
Lane).

{21} For an excellent summary of this doctrine, vide _Introduction to
Herbert Spencer_, by W. H. Hudson.

{40} _Thomas De Quincey_, by H. S. Salt (Bell's Miniature Biographies).

{48} _De Quincey's Life and Writings_, p. 456, by A. H. Japp, LL.D.

{70} The gypsy word for Antonio.

{71} Devil.

{102} It is a peculiarly American trait. The same thing dominates
Whitman. Saxon egotism and Yankee egotism are quite distinctive
products.

{106} _Thoreau_, by H. A. Page.

{124a} _Later Essays_.

{124b} Introduction, _The Letters of Robert Lents Stevenson_.

{147} _The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies_ by Walter Besant.

{149} Perhaps even more remarkable is the abnormal state of
consciousness described in the "Ancient Sage."

{151a} _Six Systems of Indian Philosophy_, by F. Max Muller.

{151b} Quoted by Professor William James, _Varieties of Religions
Experiences_, p. 402.

{153a} _Varieties of Religious Experience_, p. 427.

{153b} Vide _Richard Jefferies_, by H. S. Salt.

{157a} _The Life of the Fields_, p. 72.

{157b} Curious similarity of thought here with Elia's "po