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1. 14. bonnet carré : the square cap of a doctor of theology.

1. 17. Somme de saint Thomas : the Summa Theologiae of iSt. Thomas Aquinas, the ' angelic doctor,' a learned Dominican professor of theology of the thiiteenth century.

Page 112. 1. 4. Iro. A note to the early éditions says that tiiis is an anagram of Roi, an indiffèrent and malicious poet of the time.

I. 5 Minos, the mythological ruler of Crète, who, on account of his love of justice, was made, after death, one of the judges of the lower world.

1. 13. catégories d'Aristote. Soholasticism, the philosophical System of the Church throiighout the Middle Ages, was chiefly based on the teaching of Aristotle, knovvn to a certain extent in translations from Arabie. Its most famihar détail seems to hâve been the method in which his followers classified the objecta of thought under the heads of substance, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, action, passion, position, mode of being, of doing and of suffering. ' The imperfections of thia classification,' Mill says, 'are too obvious to require, and its merits not sufficient to reward, a minute examination.' — Logic, i. 3.

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