Science, i.e. comparative mythology

P. 63, 1. 17. Ses Alexandrins. Creuzer edited Plotinus for the Clarendon Press, and found in the Alexandrian School, generally, many of his mythological ideas. Of the Heidelberg scholars, named subsequently, only Bahr, the editor of Herodotus, has left much réputation. Schlosser (1776-1861) wrote some laborious historical compilations. The best known is, perhaps, his History of the Eighteenth Century, very severely, but not unjustly handled by De Quincey, as regards its English part.

P. 64, 1. 26. L'une d'elles. The damsel in question was Minna More, Quinet's future wife.