[Footnote 160: Nonchalance, a French word meaning _indifference_, _coolness_.] [Footnote 161: Pit in the playhouse, formerly, the seats on the floor below the level of the stage. These cheap seats were occupied by a class who did not hesitate to express their opinions of the performances.] [Footnote 162: Eclat, a French word meaning _brilliancy of success_, _striking effect_.] [Footnote 163: "Lethe, the river of oblivion."--_Paradise Lost_. Oblivion, forgetfulness.] [Footnote 164: Who. What is the construction?] [Footnote 165: Nonconformist, one who does not conform to established usages or opinions. Emerson considers conformity and consistency as the two terrors that scare us from self-trust. (See note 182.)] [Footnote 166: Explore if it be goodness, investigate for himself and see if it be really goodness. "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." PAUL, _I. Thes._ v. 21. ] [Footnote 167: Suffrage, approval. "What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted." SHAKESPEARE, _II. Henry VI._, III. 2. ] [Footnote 168: "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." _Hamlet_, II. 2.] [Footnote 169: Barbadoes, an island in the Atlantic Ocean, one of the Lesser Antilles. The negroes, composing by far the larger part of the population, were formerly slaves.] [Footnote 170: He had rather have his actions ascribed to whim and caprice than to spend the day in explaining them.] [Footnote 171: Diet and bleeding, special diet and medical care, used figuratively, of course.] [Footnote 172: Read Emerson's essay on _Greatness_.] [Footnote 173: The precise man, precisely what kind of man.] [Footnote 174: "By their fruits ye shall know them."--_Matthew_, vii. 16 and 20.] [Footnote 175: With, notwithstanding, in spite of.] [Footnote 176: Of the bench, of an impartial judge.] [Footnote 177: Bound their eyes with ... handkerchief, in this game of blindman's-buff.] [Footnote 178: "Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve; hast thou not two eyes of thy own?"--CARLYLE.] [Footnote 179: Give examples of men who have been made to feel the displeasure of the world for their nonconformity.] [Footnote 180: "Nihil tam incertum nec tam inæstimabile est quam animi multitudinis."--LIVY, xxxi. 34. "Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus." CLAUDIANUS, _De IV. Consul. Honorii_, 302. ] [Footnote 181: _The other terror._ The first, conformity, has just been treated.] [Footnote 182: Consistency. Compare, on the other hand, the well-known saying, "Consistency, thou art a jewel."] [Footnote 183: Orbit, course in life.] [Footnote 184: Somewhat, something.] [Footnote 185: See _Genesis_, xxxix. 12.]