[Footnote 247: Doric, the oldest, strongest, and simplest of the three styles of Grecian architecture.] [Footnote 248: Gothic, a pointed style of architecture, prevalent in western Europe in the latter part of the middle ages.] [Footnote 249: Never imitate. Emerson insists on this doctrine.] [Footnote 250: Shakespeare (1564-1616), the great English poet and dramatist. He is mentioned in Emerson's writings more than any other character in history, and is taken as the type of the poet in his _Representative Men_. "O mighty poet! Thy works are not as those of other men, simply and merely great works of art; but are also like the phenomena of nature, like the sun and the sea, the stars and the flowers,--like frost and snow, rain and dew, hailstorm and thunder, which are to be studied with entire submission of our own faculties, and in the perfect faith that in them there can be no too much or too little, nothing useless or inert,--but that, the further we press in our discoveries, the more we shall see proofs of design and self-supporting arrangement where the careless eye had seen nothing but accident!"--DE QUINCY.] [Footnote 251: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American philosopher, statesman, diplomatist, and author. He discovered the identity of lightning with electricity, invented the lightning-rod, went on several diplomatic missions to Europe, was one of the committee that drew up the Declaration of Independence, signed the treaty of Paris, and compiled _Poor Richard's Almanac_.] [Footnote 252: Francis Bacon (1561-1626), a famous English philosopher and statesman. He became Lord Chancellor under Elizabeth. He is best known by his _Essays_; he wrote also the _Novum Organum_ and the _Advancement of Learning_.] [Footnote 253: Sir Isaac Newton. (See note 53.)] [Footnote 254: Scipio. (See note 205.)] [Footnote 255: Phidias (500?-432? B.C.), famous Greek sculptor.] [Footnote 256: Egyptians. He has in mind the pyramids.] [Footnote 257: The Pentateuch is attributed to Moses.] [Footnote 258: Dante (1265-1321), the greatest of Italian poets, author of the _Divina Commedia_.] [Footnote 259: Foreworld, a former ideal state of the world.] [Footnote 260: New Zealander, inhabitant of New Zealand, a group of two islands lying southeast of Australia.] [Footnote 261: Geneva, a city of Switzerland, situated at the southwestern extremity of Lake Geneva.] [Footnote 262: Greenwich nautical almanac. The meridian of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, near London, is the prime meridian for reckoning the longitude of the world. The nautical almanac is a publication containing astronomical data for the use of navigators and astronomers. What is the name of the corresponding publication of the U.S. Observatory at Washington?] [Footnote 263: Get the meaning of these astronomical terms.]