RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Mills, Review of French historians. CUL-DAR189.135. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. RN2
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR189 contains material for Darwin's book Expression of the emotions.
John S. Mill. 1844. [Review of] Histoire de France. Par M. Michelet. vols. 1-5. Paris. Edinburgh Review, no. 140: 1-39.
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Mills Review on French Historians Eding. Rev. Jan. 44 p. 38 says "It is the nature of all forms used on important occasions to outlast, for indefinite period, the states of manners & society, in which they originated" – in explaining the accusation & chief cause of overthrow of the Templars from there initiating practice of spitting on the Cross, to show their regeneration from a worthless state (so expression) alludes to differences in races & similarity of French & Irish characters.
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