things in the laws of motion. The search was made, and Galileo found them. Thenceforth the work of the Renaissance, outstripping the extreme point to which Bacon had pushed it, and at which he had left it, was able to proceed onward by itself, and did so proceed, without limit. [Footnote 265: See, at Bruges, the pictures of Hemling (fifteenth century). No paintings enable us to understand so well the ecclesiastical piety of the Middle Ages, which was altogether like that of the Buddhists.] [Footnote 266: The first carriage was in 1564. It caused much astonishment. Some said that it was "a great sea-shell brought from China"; others, "that it was a temple in which cannibals worshipped the devil."] [Footnote 267: For a picture of this state of things, see Fenn's "Paston Letters."] [Footnote 268: Louis XI in France, Ferdinand and Isabella in Spain, Henry VII in England. In Italy the feudal regime ended earlier, by the establishment of republics and principalities.] [Footnote 269: 1488, Act of Parliament on Enclosures.] [Footnote 270: A "Compendious Examination," 1581, by William Strafford. Act of Parliament, 1541.] [Footnote 271 Between 1377 and 1588 the increase was from two and a half to five millions.] [Footnote 272: In 1585; Ludovic Guicciardini.] [Footnote 273: Henry VIII at the beginning of his reign had but one ship of war. Elizabeth sent out one hundred and fifty against the Armada. In 1553 was founded a company to trade with Russia. In 1578 Drake circumnavigated the globe. In 1600 the East India Company was founded.] [Footnote 274: Nathan Drake, "Shakespeare and his Times," 1817, I. V. 72 et passim.] [Footnote 275: Nathan Drake, "Shakespeare and his Times," I. V. 102.] [Footnote 276: This was called the Tudor style. Under James I, in the hands of Inigo Jones, it became entirely Italian, approaching the antique.] [Footnote 277: Burton, "Anatomy of Melancholy," 12th ed. 1821. Stubbes, "Anatomie of Abuses," ed. Turnbull, 1836.] [Footnote 278: Nathan Drake, "Shakespeare and his Times," II. 6, 87.] [Footnote 279: Holinshed (1586), 1808, 6 vols. III. 763 et passim.] [Footnote 280: Ibid., Reign of Henry VII "Elizabeth and James Progresses," by Nichols.] [Footnote 281: Laneham's Entertainment at Killingworth Castle, 1575. Nichols's "Progresses," vol. I. London, 1788.] [Footnote 282: Ben Jonson's works, ed. Gifford, 1816, 9 vols. "Masque of Hymen," vol. VII. 76.] [Footnote 283: Certain private letters also describe the court of Elizabeth as a place where there was little piety or practice of religion, and where all enormities reigned in the highest degree.] [Footnote 284: Nathan Drake, "Shakespeare and his Times," chap. V. and VI.] [Footnote 285: Stubbes, "Anatomie of Abuses," p. 168 et passim.] [Footnote 286: Hentzner's "Travels in England" (Bentley's translation). He thought that the figure carried about in the Harvest Home represented Ceres.]