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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. j.a.pp, 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} _Th.o.r.eau_, 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.