Editorial note — A Sketch Of Leo X. And His Age.

[Footnote 169: Gibbon tells us in a foot-note to his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that, "at the end of the fifteenth century, there were about fifty universities in Europe." Though this is indeed a glorious tribute, considering from whom it came, paid to the mediaeval ages, we are, however, more inclined to believe with the New American Cyclopaedia that, "before the year 1500, there were over sixty-four universities in Europe."]

[Footnote 170: Mackintosh says, "Scarcely any metaphysical controversy agitated among recent philosophers was unknown to the schoolmen." (Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy.)]