[186] The Age of Reason Begins, 394.
[187] The Age of Voltaire, 64.
[188] Our Oriental Heritage, 265.
[189] The Reformation, 763.
[190] The Age of Voltaire, 487.
[191] Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
I, 314.
[192] Caesar and Christ, 296-97.
[193] The Age of Faith, 525-26.
[194] Plato, Laws, No. 948.
[195] Our Oriental Heritage, 205-13.
[196] Ibid., 4.16-19,434,504
[197] Renan, The Apostles, xxxiii.
[198] Lemaître, Jean Jacques Rousseau, 9.
[199] Durant, The Mansions of Philosophy, 568.
[200] The Reformation, 752.
[201] The Age of Louis XIV, 720.
[202] Plutarch, Life of Solon.
[203] The Life of Greece, 112-18.
[204] Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus.
[205] Caesar and Christ, 111-22, 42- 44,180-208.
[206] Encyclopaedia Britannica, II, 962b.
[207] Our Oriental Heritage, 231. We have revised the date
there given for Hammurabi.
[208] The Life of Greece, 587-92.
[209] Paul-Louis, Ancient Rome at Work, 283-85.
[210] Caesar and Christ, 641f.
[211] Szuma Ch’ien in Granet, Marcel, Chinese Civilization,
113.
[212] Ibid.
[213] Our Oriental Heritage, 700f. The dates there given are
being revised for a new edition.
[214] Gowen and Hall, Outline History of China, 142.
[215] In Carter, Thomas, The Invention of Printing in China
and Its Spread Westward, 183.
[216] Our Oriental Heritage, 724-26.
[217] The Age of Reason Begins, 249-51.
[218] Kautsky, Karl, Communism in Central Europe in the
Time of the Reformation, 121, 130.
[219] The Reformation, 383, 391, 398-401.
[220] Renan, Marc Aurèle, 479.
[221] Gibbon, Decline and Fall, I, 31.
[222] We should add that some historians consider the age
of the Antonines as an unsuccessful “rally” in the decay of
Rome. See Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History (London,
1934 f.), IV, 60.
[223] See Taine’s [Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe (1828-93)]
unforgettable description in The French Revolution (New
York, 1931), II, 209-33.
[224] Gomme, A. W., The Population of Athens in the Fifth
and Fourth Centuries B.C., 21, 26, 47; Life of Greece, 254.
[225] Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, iii 10; Life of Greece,
284.
[226] Plato, The Republic, Nos. 560-64.
[227] Ibid., No. 422.
[228] Aristotle, Politics, No. 1310
[229] Isocrates, Works, “Archidamus,” No. 67.
[230] This paragraph has been copied from The Life of
Greece, 464-66.
[231] Caesar and Christ, 128-30.
[232] Ibid.
[233] Our Oriental Heritage, 446.
[234] Caesar and Christ, 218.
[235] In Seebohm, The Age of Johnson, xiii.