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objection of the lower clergy to papal taxes, and a frank dislike of foreigners and landlords. There was no touch of Wycliffes influence in the rising. It was at its feeblest in Leicestershire, and it murdered one of the only other Liberal churchmen in England.P. G.

 

Fn-34.6 But nonconformity was stamped out in Germany. See par. 11B of this chapter.

 

Fn-34.7 _Encyclopaedia Britannica,_ article "Scholasticism."

 

Fn-34.8 _The Medieval Mind,_ by Henry Osborne Taylor.

 

Fn-34.9 _Cp._ Chap II, par. 1, towards the end.

 

Fn-34.10 See Gregorys _Discovery,_ chap. vi.

 

Fn-34.11 From Dr. Tille in Helmolts _History of the World._

 

Fn-34.12 Charles Dickens in his _American Notes_ mentions swine in Broadway, New York, in the middle nineteenth century.

 

Fn-34.13 In these maritime adventures in the eastern Atlantic and the west African coast the Portuguese were preceded in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and early fifteenth centuries by Normans, Catalonians, and Genoese.

 

Fn-34.14 But he had a better reason for doing this in the fact that there was no heir to the throne. The Wars of the Roses, a bitter dynastic war, were still very vivid in the minds of English people.F. I. L. H.

 

Fn-34.15 Prescotts Appendix to Robertsons _History of Charles V._

 

Fn-34.16 Prescott.

 

Fn-35.1 _Rise of the Dutch Republic_

 

Fn-35.2 This is not the same Simon de Montfort as the leader of the crusades against Albigenses, but his son.

 

Fn-35.3 Frederick the Great of Prussia.

 

Fn-35.4 Catherine the Great of Russia.

 

Fn-35.5 Louis XVI of France and Charles III of Spain.

 

Fn-35.6 Gibbon forgets here that cannon and the fundamentals of modern military method came to Europe with the Mongols.

 

Fn-35.7 "Our present public school system is candidly based on training a dominant master class. But the uprising of the workers and modern conditions are rapidly making the dominant method unworkable, The change in the aim of schools will transform all the organizations and methods of schools, and my belief is that this change will make the new era"F. W. Sanderson, Head Master of Oundle, in an address at Leeds, February 16th, 1920.

 

Fn-36.1 _John Smiths Travels._

 

Fn-36.2 The Tripoli Treaty, see Channing, vol iii, chap xviii.

 

Fn-36.3 Wells, _The Future in America._

 

Fn-36.4 In 1776 Lord Dartmouth wrote that the colonists could not be allowed "to check or discourage a traffic so beneficent to the nation."

 

Fn-36.5 Article "France". _Encyclopaedia Britannica._

 

Fn-36.6 In his article, "French Revolutionary Wars," _Encyclopaedia Britannica._

 

Fn-36.7 In the thirteen months before June, 1794, there were 1,229 executions ; in the following seven weeks there were 1,376.P.G.

 

Fn-36.8 Channing, vol iii. chap. xviii.

 

Fn-37.1 Gourgand quoted by Holland Rose.

 

Fn-38.1 But note Boyle and Sir Wm. Hamilton as conspicuous scientific men who were Irishmen.

 

Fn-38.2 It is worth noting that nearly all the great inventors in England during the eighteenth century were working men, that inventions proceeded from the workshop, and not from the laboratory. It is also worth noting that only two of these inventors accumulated fortunes and founded families.E. B.

 

Fn-38.3 Here America led the old world.

 

Fn-38.4 In Northumberland and Durham in the early days of coal mining they were so cheaply esteemed that it was unusual to hold inquests on the bodies of men killed in mine disasters.

 

Fn-38.5 It is sometimes argued against Marx that the proportion of people who have savings invested has increased in many modern communities. These savings are technically "capital" and their owners "capitalists" to that extent, and this is supposed to contradict the statement of Marx that property concentrates into few and fewer hands. Marx used many of his terms carelessly and chose them ill, and his ideas were better than his words. When he wrote property he meant "property so far as it is power." The small investor has remarkably little power over his invested capital.

 

Fn-38.6 Wells, _Russia in the Shadows_ .

 

Fn-38.7 For a closely parallel view of religion to that given here, see _Outspoken Essays_, by Dean Inge,. Essays VIII and IX on _St. Paul_ and on _Institutionalism and Mysticism._

 

Fn-38.8 Albert Thomas in the _Encyclopaedia Britannica_

 

Fn-38.9 Hence "Jingo" for any rabid patriot.

 

Fn-38.10 See Putnam Weales _Indiscreet Letters from Pekin_ , a partly fictitious book, but true and vivid in its effects.

 

Fn-38.11 A new and much more liberal Maltese constitution was promulgated in June, 1920, practically putting Malta on the footing of a self-governing colony.

 

Fn-39.1 These quotations are from Sir Thomas Barclays article "Peace" in the _Encyclopaedia Britannica_

 

Fn-39.2 "Is" and not "are." Since the Civil War the U. S. A. is one nation. A. C.

 

Fn-39.3 _The Times_, December 8th, 1915.

 

Fn-39.4 Authorities vary between 250,000 and a million houses.

 

Fn-39.5 In his book, _The Peace Conference_.

 

Fn-39.6 Dillon.

 

Fn-39.7 Dillon. And see his _The Peace Conference_, chapter iii, for instances of the amazing ignorance of the various delegates.

 

Fn-39.8 Checked by subsequent comparison with the published article in the _Jour. of the Roy United Service Institution,_ vol. lxv, No 457, February,

 

Fn-39.9 Cp. Psalm cxxxvi.

 

Fn-39.10 Here is another glimpse of the agreeable dreams that fill the contemporary military mind. It is from Fullers recently published _Tanks in the Great War_. Colonel Fuller does not share that hostility to tanks characteristic of the older type of soldier. In the next war , he tells us; "Fast-moving tanks, equipped with tons of liquid gas . . . will cross the frontier and obliterate every living thing in the fields and farms, the villages, and cities of the enemys country. Whilst life is being swept away around the frontier, fleets of aeroplanes will attack the enemys great industrial and governing centres. All these attacks will be made at first, not against the enemys great army . . . but against the civil population, in order to compel it to accept the will of the attacker.

 

For a good, well-balanced account of what modern war really means, see Phillip Gibbs, _Realities of War_.