LIFE AT MUNICH. 91 



From one to two o'clock on Saturday we have 

 a lesson in experimental physiology, plainly 

 speaking, in animal dissection, from Dr. Oes- 

 terreicher, a young Decent, who has written 

 on the circulation of the blood. As Agassiz 

 dissects a great many animals, especially fish- 

 es, at the house, we are making rapid progress 

 in comparative anatomy. At four o'clock we 

 go usually once a week to hear Oken on " Na- 

 tur-philosophie " (a course we attended last 

 term also), but by that means we secure a 

 good seat for Schelling's lecture immediately 

 after. A man can hardly hear twice in his 

 life a course of lectures so powerful as those 

 Schelling is now giving on the philosophy of 

 revelation. This will sound strangely to you, 

 because, till now, men have not believed that 

 revelation could be a subject for philosophical 

 treatment ; to some it has seemed too sacred ; 

 to others too irrational. . . . This lecture 

 brings us to six o'clock, when the public 

 courses are at an end : we go home, and now 

 begin the private lectures. Sometimes Agas- 

 siz tries to beat French rules and construc- 

 tions into our brains, or we have a lesson 

 in anatomy, or I read general natural his- 

 tory aloud to William Schimper. By and by 

 I shall review the natural history of grasses 



