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Note 1 · The influence of the great city in centralising the villages and making a state possible was in Greece philologically stereotyped by the facNote 2 · ὁ στρατιωτικὸς βίος πολλὰ ἒχει μέρη τῶς ἀρετῆς.—Aristot. Pol. ii. 9. St. Paul also frequently in the Epistles, and Clemens Romanus (Oxon. 16Note 3 · Spalding’s Italy, ii. p. 284.Note 4 · On Method in Political Science.Note 5 · Sismondi, Etudes sur l’economie politique, Essai iv.Note 6 · With which sentence Mr. Freeman agrees. Comparative Politics, Lecture iii. p. 78.Note 7 · This parallel has been noticed by the thoughtful Germans; see particularly Zacharia Sulla, i. 40.Note 8 · τίνος γὰρ ἂλλου ζῴου ψυχὴ πρῶτα μὲν θεῶν τῶν τὰ μέγιστα καὶ κάλλιστα συνταξάντων ᾔσθηται ὃτι εἰσι: τί δὲ φῦλον ἄλλο ἢ ἄνθρωποι θεοὺς θεραπεύNote 9 · Iliad, iii. 271; and compare Virgil, Æneid, iii. 80.Note 10 · Xen., Rep. Lac., i. 15; Herod, vi. 56.Note 11 · Pollux, viii. 90.Note 12 · Xen., Mem. i. 3.Note 13 · From the διδαχή τῶν ἀποστόλων, or Early Teaching of the Apostles, lately discovered, ch. viii., we learn that it was the custom of the earlyNote 14 · In the διδαχή τῶν ἀποστόλων there is absolutely no dogma. It is all practice, and this is quite in harmony with the use of διδαχή by Paul (INote 15 · In the διδαχή τῶν ἀποστόλων, c. xiii., the “prophets” are said to be to Christians what the “high priests” were to the Jews,—a phraseology wNote 16 · Of the very earliest state of human society, as we have already said, history teaches nothing; but, as man is a progressive animal, and the Note 17 · The fact that the family is the great social monad, as it is undoubtedly one of the oldest and most accredited facts in human tradition, so Note 18 · By the instinct of aggregation, which belongs to an essentially social animal, families will club together into townships or villages, and tNote 19 · The element in that loose triad of social forces that was first formulated into a more distinct type, and endowed with more imperative efficNote 20 · The system of self-government thus introduced, as the natural fruit of the elements out of which it arose, would be a mixture of aristocracyNote 21 · So much for Athens. Let us now see what lessons are to be learned from Rome. And here, on the threshold, it is quite plain that the abolitioNote 22 · The different stages of the battle between plebeians and patricians, or, as we term it, Whig and Tory, as they evolved themselves by a sociaNote 23 · I have enlarged on the development and decay of the Roman republic, not only because in point of political achievement Rome is by far the moNote 24 · Man is characteristically a religious animal; in fact, as Socrates teaches, the only religious animal;13 for, though a dog has no doubt reveNote 25 · So much for the soul of the business; the body is what we call the Church. And here the very word is significant. In one sense, as a separatNote 26 · The excess into which Christianity at its first start most naturally fell was ultra-spiritualism, asceticism, or by whatever name we may choNote 27 · The second excess into which Christianity, under the action of frail human nature, easily ran was intolerance. This intolerance, as in the pNote 28 · Another monstrous abuse born out of the bosom of the Church, though not so directly, is Sacerdotalism. I say not so directly, because the ge