They were not in advance of their age, as it is called, for no one
who is so can ever work profitably in it; but they were alive to the
highest and most earnest thinking of their time.
Footnotes:
[135] Written in December, 1864.
[136] It is curious, that, when Cromwell proposed to transfer a
colony from New England to Ireland, one of the conditions insisted on
in Massachusetts was that a college should be established.
[137] State Trials, II. 409. One would not reckon too closely with a
man on trial for his life, but there is something pitiful in Peter's
representing himself as coming back to England "out of the West
Indias," in order to evade any complicity with suspected New England.
[138] Waller put this into verse:--
"Let the rich ore forthwith be melted down
And the state fixed by making him a crown."
[139] The _third_ in Carlyle, 1654.
[140] Collections, Third Series, Vol I. p. 183.
[141] This speech may be found in the Annual Register of 1762.
[142] Collection of Voyages, &c., from the Library of the Earl of
Oxford, Vol. I. p. 151.
[143] Howes writes the word symbolically.
[144] "World" here should clearly be "work.
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