[Footnote 236-1: Commendable laws relating to luxury in Florence in the beginning of the 15th century. The outlay for dress, for the table, for servants and equipages was limited; but, on the other hand, it was entirely unrestricted for churches, palaces, libraries, and works of art. The consequences of this legislation are felt even in our day. (_Sismondi_, Gesch. der Ital. Freistaaten im M. A., VIII, 261. Compare _Machiavelli_, Istor. Fior., VII, a., 1472.)] [Footnote 236-2: Thus Nerva (_Xiphilin._, exc. Dionis, LXVIII, 2); Hadrian (_Spartian V. Hadrian_, 22); Antoninus Pius (Capitol, 12); Marcus Aurelius (Capitol, 27); Pertinax (Capitol, 9); Severus Alexander (_Lamprid_, 4); Aurelian (_Lamprid_, 49); Tacitus (_Vopisc_, 10 seq).] [Footnote 236-3: Extracted from the remarkable speech made by the personally frugal Tiberius (_Sueton._, Tib., 34) against sumptuary laws: _Tacit._, Annal., III, 52 ff. Compare, however, IV, 63.] [Footnote 236-4: _Tacit._, Ann., III, 55: but the differences in fortune had, at the same time, become less glaring. Henry IV. also dressed very simply for example's sake, as did also Sully, and ridiculed those _qui portaient leurs moulins et leur bois de haute-futaie sur leurs dos_. (_Péréfixe_, Histoire du Roi Henry le grand, 208.)] [Footnote 236-5: The gross luxuries of drunkenness and gluttony are a direct consequence of universal grossness, and disappear of themselves when higher wants and means of satisfying them are introduced. (_v. Buch_, Reise durch Norwegen und Lappland, 1810, I, 166; II, 112 ff.)] [Footnote 236-6: While, formerly, they cared only to abstain from spirits, the so-called "total abstinence" has prevailed since 1832. Most teetotallers compare moderate drinking to moderate lying or moderate stealing; they even declare the moderate drinker worse than the drunkard, because his example is more apt to lead others astray, and he is harder to convert. (But, Psalm, 104, 15!) The coat of arms of the English temperance societies is a hand holding a hammer in the act of breaking a bottle. (Temperance poetry!)]