CHAP. X.] SCIENTIFIC WORK. 297 



'Tis our Hall of Assembly, our high moral School, 

 Must its walls never rest from the bray of the fool ? 

 Oh vain as the prospect of summer in May 

 Are the lessons they learn and the fines that they pay. 



All the public discipline, fines, etc., are arranged and levied at 

 the Public School. The Bajuns, Semis, Tertians, and Magis- 

 trands are the four years of men. The Eegents are the four 

 Professors Greek, Nat. Hist., Nat. Phil., and Mor. Phil. 



Gaiety is just beginning here again. Society is pretty 

 steady in this latitude, plenty of diversity, but little of 

 great merit or demerit, honest on the whole, and not 

 vulgar. . . . No jokes of any kind are understood here. I 

 have not made one for two months, and if I feel one coming I 

 shall bite my tongue. I shall write as soon as I hear again 

 from you. 



To THE SAME. 



129 Union Street, 20th Jan. 1858. 



I should have written to thank you for the little book, 1 

 but I think you will prefer my thanks now that I have 

 read it. 



What is the English book that says dasz Wahrheit 

 Offeribarung mache, niclit Offenbarung Wahrheit ? 



The marrow of the book lies in the man's being a 

 Fremdling, conscious of the shell that surrounds him and 

 divides him from others, and able neither to live in it nor 

 to break it. But the shell is only the outer surface of a 

 minute drop of fluid, impenetrable because minute, and 

 arising from molecular forces in himself. But he meets with 

 another drop, confined to one spot it is true, but a great deal 

 larger than himself. He coalesces, and both are now larger 

 and more fluid than before. Note that though he was 

 movable and active, she fixed and ill, she knew the 

 Hofrath; he knew no one, unless perhaps his mother. 

 People differ in their need of knowing others, and in their 

 power of conquering that knowledge. I have been reading 



1 Deutche Liebe. (By Prof. Max Miiller.) 



