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seem born for nothing 1 else ; besides, the world is 

 carried on by division of labour. Still, such men 

 ought to know their place. Goethe says," a man is 

 of importance not in proportion to the works he 

 leaves behind ; but in so far as he is actively happy 

 and leads others to be so." This is probably very 

 true. The greatest man is the man with most hap- 

 piness, not with most reasoning- power, still less with 

 most what he calls knowledge. But then the hap- 

 piness must be the real article, not mere pleasure 

 enjoying. " He that increaseth in knowledge in- 

 creaseth in sorrow." That means, he kills by think- 

 ing and doing nothing else, all the loving and hating 

 and feeling and enjoying part of his nature. ' Re- 

 joice always, and again I say, rejoice." Again 

 Goethe says, " that man loses Paradise by striving 

 after knowledge is true of all time ; but perhaps 

 especially true of the present." 



The author of " Ecce Homo" says, that no heart is 

 pure that is not warm j and that no virtue is safe 

 that is not enthusiastic. He also says, that absorb- 

 ing mental activity blunts those feelings in which the 

 life of virtue resides. 



Frederick Robertson was told in Germany, that 

 all the metaphysicians in that country were men of 

 bad private character j but this was I should think a 

 very considerable exaggeration. About disbelieving 

 in matter, that is to say, in every thing but one's 

 own sensations, which is what abstract thought 

 comes to at last, I will only say a few more words. 



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