LITTLE read the book, and read it aloud to others and spoke 

 OURNEYS of it as, "A message from the gods." 



He also read every word that Carlyle put in print. It 

 was Carlyle who introduced him to German philos- 

 ophy and German literature, and fired him with a 

 desire to see for himself what Germany was doing. 

 Q Germany had still another mystic tie that drew him 

 thitherward. It was at Marburg, Germany, that his 

 illustrious namesake had published his translation of 

 the Bible. 



At Marburg there was a university, small, 't was true, 

 but its simplicity and the cheapness of living there 

 were recommendations. 



So to Marburg he went. We think we do things be- 

 cause we choose, but all we really do is to succumb 

 to attractions. 



At Marburg, Tyndall found lodgings in a little street 

 called "Heretic's Row." Possibly there be people who 

 think that Tyndall' s taking a room there was chance, 

 too. Chance is natural law not understood. 

 Marburg is a very lovely little town that clings amid 

 a forest of trees to the rocky hillside overlooking the 

 River Lahn. Tyndall was very happy at Marburg and 

 at times very miserable. 



The beauty of the place appealed to him. He was a 

 climber by nature, and the hills were a continual 

 temptation. But the language was new; and before 

 this his work had all been of a practical kind. College 

 seems small and trival after you have been in the 

 actual world of affairs. 

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