500 THE MOUNTAIN. . 



the records and monuments of his honest work, and cease- 

 less spiritual growth for ages of vigilance and effort, to re- 

 verse the poles of the world, and, riding supreme upon "the 

 wings of blarney," and the virtue and omnipotence of the 

 infinite divisibility of matter, and the medical virtues thereof, 

 to be carried on the trumpet-blast of common fame, that 

 "always most impudently lies," within the sphere of imagin- 

 ative women and sickly-souled men. 



Wonderful Germany ! thou art turning the heads of the 

 human race with thy deep-musing professors ! " For strange 

 is it, nay, not without some touches of awfulness, to reflect 

 on what is every day achieved in those dim chambers in high 

 attics of learned Jena, Heidelberg, (Meissen,) and the 

 rest, by those skin-dried anatomies who inhabit the same, to 

 outward appearance not without some vague resemblance 

 to humanity, especially such of them as occasionally shave, 

 but, in fact, not being men at all, except in their faint out- 

 line and similitude, but actually intellectual or full-brained 

 spiders, weaving ingenious webs, intricate, almost invisible 

 in their separate lines, but forming altogether a reticulated 

 mesh- work, (say rather cloud-grating,) through which but 

 dim and indistinct glimpses can be caught by eyes of hiero- 

 glyphic deciphering Champollions, but darker than mid- 

 night Erebus to the great mass of mankind." 



A desperate sportsman was this Hahnemann. Like the 

 swallow-fishers on the towers of the Alhambra, flinging their 

 flies to the wind for winged prey, he cast his lines into the 

 vacuities of infinitude, flung out his world-wide nets of 

 spiritual cobwebs, and, after divers hopeless rakings of 

 the seas of space, returns with his basket crowded with 

 shining prey; the world's riddles read, the sphinx's story 

 told, mankind physically redeemed by spiritualized sugar- 

 molecules under the divine guidance of a newly-invented 

 force of the universe called "similia similibus curanter." 



Hail, thou blessed wing-power of the imagination, creating 

 epics and idyls, dreams and fables, long hast thou troubled 

 the waters of theologies and histories, philosophies and 



