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named being, praisecl for qualities wliich it never possessed, 

 a tlieme for mytìiology in prose and poetry; later on, the 

 bubble of its glory liaving burst, it gradually settles into a 

 Idnd of commensalism witk man, it obtains from liim « a lo- 

 cai liabitation and a name », it joins the Anglo-Saxon race 

 in its immense colonial development, it vies with it in prodi- 

 gies of fecundity, and at j)resent renders hitherto unrecognized 

 sorvices in converting « atrocious stufF » into pure and clean 

 living matter ! 



I dose this chapter on the Biigonìa-crsize with the moral 

 of it, contained in another sentence from Goethe: 



« Man sieht nur was man weiss. » (1) 



Ileidelherg, Jane 1803. 



C. E. OsTEN Sacken. 



(1) We see only wliat we kiiow 



