Note 211 — Chapter IV · THE SATIRIC GROUP
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The earliest use of the phrase “citizen of the world” in English is believed to be in “England’s Path to Wealth and Honour,” by Puckle, 1700. In that work is found “An honest man is a citizen of the world. Gain equalizeth all places to me.” Cf. Socrates (Plutarch: De Exilio, V.), “I am a citizen not of Athens or of Greece, but of the world;” E. Edwards: Words, Facts, and Phrases, London, 1882, pp. 117, 118; also Dante, “My country is the whole world,” De vulg. eloq. lib. 1, cap. 6, quoted by Burckhardt: Civilization of the Renaissance ... tr. Middlemore ... 1904, pp. 132, 133, and note.