Mr. Howells remarks that “in Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and that in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.”—“Their Silver Wedding Journey,” Harper’s Magazine, September, 1899. Footnote 87: Related by W. H. Gibson, in Harper’s Magazine for May, 1897. Footnote 88: The fact that the Roman system meant organized _ennui_ in thought, the impossibility of entertaining large and hopeful views of life, is strikingly brought out by the aid of contemporary documents in Dill’s Roman Society. Prisoners of a shrinking system, the later Romans had no outlook except toward the past. Anything onward and open in thought was inconceivable by them. Footnote 89: See Primitive Culture, by E. B. Tylor, chap. xiv. Footnote 90: J. A. Symonds, History of the Renaissance in Italy, The Fine Arts, p. 329. Hamerton has some interesting observations on mystery in art in his life of Turner, p. 352; also Ruskin in Modern Painters, part v., chaps. 4 and 5. Footnote 91: Tennyson, The Holy Grail. Footnote 92: See p. 248. Footnote 93: See his Instinct and Reason, p. 569. Footnote 94: M. J. Guyau, Esquisse d’une Morale sans Obligation ni Sanction, English translation, p. 93. Footnote 95: Idem, p. 149. Footnote 96: Idem, p. 87. Footnote 97: Idem, p. 82. Footnote 98: Studies of Childhood, p. 284. Footnote 99: See his First Three Years of Childhood, p. 287. Footnote 100: Psychology, vol. i., p. 315. Footnote 101: Emerson, History. Footnote 102: Idem, Spiritual Laws. Footnote 103: Amer. Jour. of Psychology, vol. 7, p. 86. Footnote 104: See pp. 101, 210, 226. Footnote 105: The Pathology of Mind, p. 425. Footnote 106: C. L. Dana, Nervous Diseases, p. 425. Footnote 107: Aus Meinem Leben, Book XI. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES Page Changed from Changed to 138 wie es haufig genannt wird.” wie es häufig genannt wird.” Grundriss der Psychologie Grundriss der Psychologie ● Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained. ● Used numbers for footnotes, placing them all at the end of the last chapter. ● Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.