序言 成吉思汗、托馬斯·傑斐遜與上帝
[1]. Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. III, chap. XXXV.
[2]. Ibid., vol. VI, chap. LXIV. The correct modern spelling of Genghis Khan’s title in Mongolian is Chinggis Khaan, but outside of Mongolia, his name has been spelled in many different ways: Chingiz in Arabic and Persian, Chingischam Imperator in the irst Latin references in Europe, Cambyuskan in the earliest English writings of Geoffrey Chaucer. There are several systems of Romanization for the Mongolian language and a variety of spellings are used in this book according to what seems easiest for the reader to pronounce or easiest to use for further research. Similarly, Chinese and Arabic names and words are usually presented according to the spelling of the English-language sources, without forcing all of them into one system. Alternative spellings and forms of Romanization are presented in notes as deemed helpful to the reader.
[3]. A facsimile reproduction of the manuscript has been published as The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina dated July 21, 1669 drafted under the supervision of John Locke, foreword by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, (Charleston: Charleston Library Society, 2012).
[4]. Books in the Mount Vernon library: http://librarycatalog.mountvernon.org/ cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl？biblionumber=4983&shelfbrowse_itemnumber=5995#shelfbrowser. Zingis, historie tartarie appeared simultaneously in two English translations issued by separate London printers as Taxila or Love prefer’d before Duty and Zingis a Tartarian History. For more information on the author’s life, see Alexander Calame, Anne de La Roche-Guilhen: Roman-cière huguenote (1644–1707) (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1972).
[5]. Thomas Jefferson, 1783 Catalog of Books (circa 1775-1812), 32, Thomas Jef- ferson Papers, electronic ed. (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2003). www.thomasj effersonpapers. org; http://catdir.loc. gov/catdir/toc/becites/main/ jefferson/88607928.toc.html. As late as May 26, 1795: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 28, 1 January 1794-29 February 1796, ed. John Catanzariti (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000), 357-59.