24.] [Footnote 170: Diderot's _Leben_, i.

157.] [Footnote 171: _Oeuv._, xx.

132.] [Footnote 172: The writer was one Romilly, who had been elected a minister of one of the French Protestant churches in London.

See _Memoirs of Sir Samuel Romilly_, vol.i.] [Footnote 173: I have no space to quote an interesting page in this article on the characteristics and the varying destinies of genius.

"We must rank in this class Pindar, AEschylus, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mahomet, Shakespeare, Roger Bacon, and Paracelsus." xvii.