Chapter Iberia to Idle Wheel of I by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

seen off the Cape of Good Hope was two miles in circumference, and a hundred and fifty feet high. For every cubic foot above water there must be at least eight feet below.

Iceland Dogs Shaggy white dogs, once great favourites with ladies. Shakespeare mentions them (Henry V., ii. 1).

"Use and custome hath intatained ... Iceland dogges curled and rough all over, which, by reason of the length of their heire make showe neither of face nor of body." - Fleming: Of English Dogges (1576).

Ich Dien According to a Welsh tradition, Edward I. promised to provide Wales with a prince "who could speak no word of English," and when his son Edward of Carnarvon was born he presented him to the assembly, saying in Welsh Eich dyn (behold the man).

   The more general belief is that it was the motto under the plume of John, King of Bohemia, slain by the Black Prince at Cressy in 1346, and that the Black Prince who slew the Bohemian assumed it out of modesty, to indicate that "he served under the king his father."

Ichneumon An animal resembling a weasel, and well worthy of being defended by priest and prince in Egypt, as it feeds on serpents, mice, and other vermin, and is especially fond of crocodiles' eggs, which it scratches out of the sand. According to legend, it steals into the mouths of crocodiles when they gape, and eats out their bowels. The ichneumon is called "Pharaoh's rat."

Ichor (I'-kor). The colourless blood of the heathen deities. (Greek, ichor, juice.)

Ichthus for Iesous, CHristos, THeou Uios, Soter. This notarica is found on many seals, rings, urns, and tombstones, belonging to the early times of Christianity, and was supposed to be a "charm" of mystical efficacy.

Icon Basilike (4 syl.). Portraiture of King Charles I.

"The eikwn, or Portraiture of hys Majesty in hys solitudes and sufferings ... was wholly and only my invention." - Gauden: Letter to Clarendon.

Iconoclasts (Greek, "image breakers"). Reformers who rose in the eighth century, especially averse to the employment of pictures, statues, emblems, and all visible representations of sacred objects. The crusade against these things began in 726 with the Emperor Leo III., and continued for one hundred and twenty years. (Greek, ikon, an image; klao, I break.)

"The eighth century, the age of the Iconoclasts, had not been favourable to literature." - Isaac Taylor: The Alphabet, vol, ii. chap. viii. p. 159.

Idæ'an Mother Cybele, who had a temple on Mount Ida, in Asia Minor.

Idealism The doctrines taught by Idealists.
   Subjective idealism, taught by Fechte (2 syl.), supposes the object (say a tree) and the image of it on the mind is all one. Or rather, that there is no object outside the mental idea.
   Objective idealism, taught by Schelling, supposes that the tree and the image thereof on the mind are distinct from each other.
   Absolute idealism, taught by Hegel, supposes there is no such thing as phonomena, that mind, through the senses, creates its own world. In fact, that there is no real, but all is mere ideal.
   These are three German philosophers:
   Hegel (1770-1831).
   Schelling (1770-1854).
   Fechte (1762-1814).

Idealists Those who believe in idealism. They may be divided into two distinct sections -
   (1) Those who follow Plato, who taught that before creation there existed certain types or ideal models, of which ideas created objects are the visible images. Malebranche, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, etc., were of this school.
   (2) Those who maintain that all phenomena are only subjective - that is, mental cognisances only within ourselves, and what we see and what we hear are only brain impressions. Of this school were Berkeley, Hume, Fichte, and many others.