[27] _Etudes orientales_, 1861.

[28] _Unité morale des peuples modernes_,--a lecture delivered at Lyons,
10 April, 1839. This lecture is inserted after the _Génie des Religions_
in the complete works of the author.

[29] Franck, _Philosophie du droit ecclésiastique_, pages 117 and 118.

[30] Schmidt, _Essai historique sur la Société civile dans le monde
romain_. Bk. 1. ch. 3.

[31]

La liberté que j'aime est née avec notre âme
Le jour où le plus juste a bravé le plus fort.

[32] Tertullian.

[33] _Le Père Lacordaire_, by the Comte de Montalembert, p. 25.

[34] _De l'autre rive_, by Iscander (in Russian). Iscander is the
pseudonyme of M. Herzen.

[35] "The man of thought knows that the world only belongs to him as a
subject of study, and, even if he could reform it, perhaps he would find
it so curious as it is that he would not have the courage to do
so."--Ernest Renan, preface to _Etudes d'histoire religieuse_, 1857. The
author has manifested better sentiments in 1859, in the preface to his
_Essais de morale et de critique._