(15) Mrs. Byron is said to have died in a fit of passion, brought on by
reading her upholsterer's bills.

(16) Sainte-Beuve, 'Causeries du Lundi,' i. 23.

(17) Ibid. i. 22.

(18) Ibid. 1. 23.

(19) That about one-third of all the children born in this country die
under five years of age, can only he attributable to ignorance of
the natural laws, ignorance of the human constitution, and
ignorance of the uses of pure air, pure water, and of the art of
preparing and administering wholesome food. There is no such
mortality amongst the lower animals.

(20) Beaumarchais' 'Figaro,' which was received with such enthusiasm
in France shortly before the outbreak of the Revolution, may be
regarded as a typical play; it represented the average morality of
the upper as well as the lower classes with respect to the
relations between the sexes. "Label men how you please," says
Herbert Spencer, "with titles of 'upper' and 'middle' and 'lower,'
you cannot prevent them from being units of the same society,
acted upon by the same spirit of the age, moulded after the same
type of character. The mechanical law, that action and reaction
are equal, has its moral analogue. The deed of one man to another
tends ultimately to produce a like effect upon both, be the deed
good or bad. Do but put them in relationship, and no division
into castes, no differences of wealth, can prevent men from
assimilating.... The same influences which rapidly adapt the