[180] The Dying One, Romancero, book II, quoted entire.

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[181] Written from Paris, September 30, 1850.  See Memoirs, ed. 1910, II, 226-27.

MARCUS AURELIUS.

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[182] Reprinted from The Victoria Magazine, II, 1-9, November, 1863, in Essays in Criticism, 1865.

[183] John Stuart Mill (1806-73), English philosopher and economist. On Liberty (1859) is his most finished writing.

[184] The Imitation of Christ (Imitatio Christi), a famous medieval Christian devotional work, is usually ascribed to Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471), an Augustinian canon of Mont St. Agnes in the diocese of Utrecht.

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[185] Epictetus.  Greek Stoic philosopher (born c.  A.D. 60).  He is an earnest preacher of righteousness and his philosophy is eminently practical.  For Arnold’s personal debt to him see his sonnet To a Friend.

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[186] Empedocles.  A Greek philosopher and statesman (c. 490-430 B.C.).  He is the subject of Arnold’s early poetical drama, Empedocles on Etna, which he later suppressed for reasons which he states in the Preface to the Poems of 1853.  See Selections, pp. 1-3. [Transcriber’s note:  This approximates to the section following the text reference for Footnote 1 in this e-text.]

[187] Encheiridion, chap.  LII.

[188] Ps.  CXLIII, 10; incorrectly quoted.

[189] Is.  LX, 19.

[190] Mal.  IV, 2.

[191] John I, 13.

[192] John III, 5.

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[193] 1 John V, 4.

[194] Matt.  XIX, 26.

[195] 2 Cor.  V, 17.

[196] Encheiridion, chap.  XLIII.

[197] Matt.  XVIII, 22.

[198] Matt.  XXII, 37-39, etc.

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[199] George Long (1800-79), classical scholar.  He published Selections from Plutarch’s Lives, 1862; Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, 1862; etc.

[200] Thomas Arnold (1795-1842), English clergyman and headmaster of Rugby School, father of Matthew Arnold.

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[201] Jeremy Collier (1650-1726).  His best-known work is his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, 1698, a sharp and efficacious attack on the Post-Restoration drama. The Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus, his Conversation with himself, appeared in 1701.

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