Note 498 — Chapter I · GALILEO AT SIENA AND ARCETRI.
G. (George) Sturge translation
These words were written in a truly prophetic spirit; for such a parallel was actually drawn by Voltaire in (vol. iv. p. 145) his “Essai sur les mœurs et l’esprit des nations, et sur les principaux faits de l’histoire, depuis Charlemagne jusquà Louis XIII.”