[Footnote 54: Any one wishing to see how that inevitable moral debasement came upon the German aristocracy, and in general what the oppressive caste came to finally, can find enough in the 2d vol. of Menzel's History of Germany.] [Footnote 55: Gerbertzoff, _Hist. de la Civilisation en Russie_. Haxthausen, _Etudes sur la Russie_. A full sketch of the Rise and Decline of the serf system in Russia I have attempted in the Atlantic Monthly, Vol. X., page 538.] [Footnote 56: _Creasy's History of English Constitution_;--but Hume says of Leicester's Parliament, that it was in the intention of reducing forever both the King and the people under the arbitrary power of a very narrow tyranny, which must have terminated either in anarchy or in violent usurpation and tyranny. Hist. of England, Chap. XII.] [Footnote 57: I perhaps do the last two Georges injustice. Neither of them would have publicly insulted men of letters and science as the Prince of Wales has several times done recently.] [Footnote 58: Creasy, Chap. IX.] [Footnote 59: Fischel on English Constitution, Chap. I., pp. 9, 11. Also Stephens' Edition of De Lolme.] [Footnote 60: For best account of this, see May's Constitutional History.] [Footnote 61: See Kay's Social Condition of English People.] [Footnote 62: Among the grievances put forth by the nobles at the States General of 1614, one was that the wives of the common people wore too good clothing; another was that an orator of the third estate had dared call the nobles their brothers. Sir James Stephens' Lectures.] [Footnote 63: Among the grievances put forth by the nobles at the States General of 1614, one was that the wives of the common people wore too good clothing; another was that an orator of the third estate had dared call the nobles their brothers. Sir James Stephens' Lectures.] [Footnote 64: For a very striking summary of this see Henri Martin's _Hist. de France_, vol. v., p. 193.] [Footnote 65: I know of but one plausible exception to this rule--that of the failure of Joseph II. in his dealings with the Rhine provinces. The case of Louis XVI. is no exception, for he was always taking back secretly what he had given openly.] * * * * * Transcriber's Notes Minor punctuation errors have been silently corrected. Footnotes have been reindexed with numbers and moved to the end of the document. In Footnote 17: "2mc" is a possible typo for "2me." (Orig: _Histoire de la Civilisation en France_, 2mc Leçon.) In Footnote 18: Changed "Boook" to "Book." (Orig: History of Roman Republic, Boook III., chap. 1.) End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Most Bitter Foe of Nations, and the Way to Its Permanent Overthrow, by Andrew Dickson White