hospitals, infirmaries, and those other receptacles of indigence and disease which we see in the modern cities? And whether, in the streets of ancient Athens and Rome, there were so many objects of disease, deformity, and misery to be seen as in our streets, besides those which are concealed from public view in the houses above mentioned? In later times, indeed, in those cities, when the corruption of manners was almost as great as among us, some such things might have been seen as we are sure they were to be seen in Constantinople, under the later Greek Emperors.’—_Ancient Metaphysics_, vol. iii. p. 194. Footnote 126: ‘Omnia, quae nunc vetustissima creduntur, nova fuere. Inveterascet hoc quoque: et, quod hodie exemplis tuemur, inter exempla erit.’—TACITUS, _Ann. XI._ 24. Footnote 127: _Drummond’s Academical Questions._—Preface, p. 4. Footnote 128: _Ancient Metaphysics_, vol. iii. p. 280. Footnote 129: _Malthus on Population_, book i. chap. vii. Footnote 130: Sophocles, Antigone, 850. (Ed. Erfurdt.) Footnote 131: ‘It is notorious, that towards one another the Indians are liberal in the extreme, and for ever ready to supply the deficiencies of their neighbours with any superfluities of their own. They have no idea of amassing wealth for themselves individually; and they wonder that persons can be found in any society so destitute of every generous sentiment as to enrich themselves at the expense of others, and to live in ease and affluence regardless of the misery and wretchedness of members of the same community to which they themselves belong.’—WELD’S _Travels in Canada; Letter XXXV._ Footnote 132: See the Edda and the Northern Antiquities. Footnote 133: ‘The civilised man will submit to the greatest pain and labour, in order to excel in any exercise which is honourable; and this induces me to believe that such a man as Achilles might have beat in running even an oran outang, or the savage of the Pyrenees, whom nobody could lay hold of, though that be the exercise in which savages excel the most, and though I am persuaded that the oran outang of Angola is naturally stronger and swifter of foot than Achilles was, or than even the heroes of the preceding age, such as Hercules, and such as Theseus, Pirithous, and others mentioned by Nestor.’—_Ancient Metaphysics_, vol. iii. p. 76. Footnote 134: See Fletcher’s _Faithful Shepherdess_. The following extracts from the Satyr’s speeches to Corin will explain the allusion in the text.