[311] These Fathers were strangers to the “doute méthodique” of MM. Langlois and Seignobos, and they certainly did not scan the pages of their vast Chinese Encyclopædias with the doubting eye of Heine:— “Augen gab uns Gott ein Paar, Dans wir schauen rein und klar; Um zu glauben was wir lesen, Wär’ ein Auge gnug gewesen.” [312] Sir Henry Yule, in _Ency. Brit._, v. 628. [313] Mayers, p. 95. [314] Gibbon, iv. 230, and Appendix 12, by Dr. Bury. [315] Reinaud and Favé, p. 201 _n._ [316] “Golden Prairies,” Paris ed., i. 308. [317] Elliot, iv. 103. [318] Incarville, in Reinaud and Favé, p. 254. [319] Sir J. Davis, “The Chinese,” &c., ii. 182. “Ils ne sont point envieux de rien faire de nouveau,” Incarville, as above, p. 259. [320] Incarville, as above, p. 252. [321] Ib. [322] Father Amiot, in Reinaud and Favé, p. 181. [323] Incarville, as above, p. 247. [324] Amiot as above. [325] Ib. [326] Mayers, as before, p. 91. [327] Amiot, as before, p. 183. [328] Ib. [329] _Hoang-chao-li-ki-thou-chi_, trans. by Pauthier in his edition of “Marco Polo,” p. 475 _n._ [330] E. H. Parker, “China,” &c., 1901, p. 83. [331] Mayers, p. 96. [332] Professor R. K. Douglas, “China” (“Story of the Nations” series), p. 74. [333] “Decline and Fall,” &c., vii. 11 _n_ (Bury’s ed.). [334] “Roger Bacon,” in _Ency. Brit._, by Professor Adamson. [335] “Quand le sens littéral est absurde, incohérent ou obscur ... on doit présumer un sens détourné.”—Langlois et Seignobos, _Introd. aux Études Historiques_, p. 127. [336] “Vulgus (arcana sapientiæ) capere non potest, sed deridet et (abutitur) in sui et sapientum dispendium et gravamen. Quia non sunt margaritæ sapientiæ spargendæ inter porcos.”—_Compendium Studii_, p. 416. [337] “Vulgus deridet sapientes, et negligit secreta sapientiæ, et nescit uti rebus dignissimis; atque si aliquid magnificum in ejus notitiam cadat a fortuna, illud pervertit et eo abutitur in damnum multiplex personarum et communitatis.”—_De Secretis_, cap. viii. [338] “Insanus est qui aliquid secretum scribit nisi ut a vulgo celetur, et ut vix a studiosissimis et sapientibus possit intilligi.”—Ib. [339] “Multa mala sequuntur eum qui revelat secreta.”—_De Secretis_, cap. viii. [340] Jonson’s “Alchemist,” Act II. [341] “Cipher” in Rees’ “Cyclopædia” and Klüber’s _Kryptographik Lehrbuch_, Tübingen, 1809. In a note to these chapters in the _Theatricum Chemicum_, Zetzner says: “Hic tamen jacta esse Steganographiæ fundamenta certissimum est.” [342] “Tonitruum et coriscationem.” [343] Æneas Tacticus adopts the same mode of expression, Table II. [344] That is, supposing we knew the subject of his letter, or had evidence which made it probable that it was so and so. [345] To lull suspicion he calls natural saltpetre chalk, a _verbum figurativum_. Other MSS. read “sal.”