[573] Webster. Daniel Webster, an American statesman and orator who was living when this essay was written. [574] Locke. John Locke. (See note 18.) [575] Rousseau. Jean Jacques Rousseau, a French philosopher of the eighteenth century. [576] Homer. (See note 550.) [577] Menn. Menn, or Mann, was in Sanscrit one of fourteen legendary beings; the one referred to by Emerson, Mann Vaivasvata was supposed to be the author of the laws of Mann, a collection made about the second century. [578] Saadi or Sadi. (See note 552.) [579] Milton. Of this great English poet and prose writer of the seventeenth century, Emerson says: "No man can be named whose mind still acts on the cultivated intellect of England and America with an energy comparable to that of Milton. As a poet Shakespeare undoubtedly transcends and far surpasses him in his popularity with foreign nations: but Shakespeare is a voice merely: who and what he was that sang, that sings, we know not." [580] Delphi. Here, source of prophecy. Delphi was a city in Greece, where was the oracle of Apollo, the most famous of the oracles of antiquity. [581] Our English Bible. The version made in the reign of King James I. by forty-seven learned divines is a monument of noble English. [582] Liturgy. An appointed form of worship used in a Christian church,—here, specifically, the service of the Episcopal church. Emerson's mother had been brought up in that church, and though she attended her husband's church, she always loved and read her Episcopal prayer book. [583] Grotius. Hugo Grotius was a Dutch jurist, statesman, theologian, and poet of the seventeenth century. [584] Rabbinical forms. The forms used by the rabbis, Jewish doctors or expounders of the law. [585] Common law. In a general sense, the system of law derived from England, in general use among English-speaking people. [586] Vedas. The sacred books of the Brahmins. [587] Æsop's Fables. Fables ascribed to Æsop, a Greek slave who lived in the sixth century before Christ. [588] Pilpay, or Bidpai. Indian sage to whom were ascribed some fables. From an Arabic translation, these passed into European languages and were used by La Fontaine, the French fabulist. [589] Arabian Nights. The Arabian Nights' Entertainment or A Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Oriental tales, the plan and name of which are very ancient. [590] Cid. The Romances of the Cid, the story of the Spanish national hero, mentioned in note on Heroism 139:5, was written about the thirteenth century by an unknown author; it supplied much of the material for two Spanish chronicles and Spanish and French tragedies written later on the same subject. [591] Iliad. The poem in which the Greek, poet, Homer, describes the siege and fall of Troy. Emerson here expresses the view adopted by many scholars that it was the work, not of one, but of many men. [592] Robin Hood. The ballads about Robin Hood, an English outlaw and popular hero of the twelfth century.