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over the Notes. Schelling's name, pp. 37, 68 ; Hegel, 

 p. 66. The distinct assurance (p. 64), that I am not 

 attacking the originator of the Philosophy of Nature,* 

 will, I trust, make my pungent severity on the " merry 

 Saturnalia," le lal en masque of the maddest Natural 

 Philosophers, more pardonable in his eyes. II f aid avoir 

 le courage d'imprimer ce que I' on a dit et ecrit depuis 

 trente ans. It was a lamentable epoch, during which 

 Germany sank far below England and France. A 

 system of Chemistry, in which one did not get one's 

 hands wet. 



Diamond is flint arrived at consciousness 

 Granite is ^Ether. Carus. 



The side of the moon which is turned towards 

 the earth has a different convexity to that of the 

 side which is turned away from it . Reason The 

 moon would fain stretch out her loving arms ; 

 incapable of this, she gazes fixedly at the earth, 

 and thus has lengthened out the lower portion of 

 her face. 



Granite blocks on rocks are spasmodic products 

 of Nature. 



Forests, as everybody knows, are the hair of 

 the animal Earth, and the distended equatorial 

 the belly side of Nature. 



America is a female figure, long, slender, watery 

 and, at the 48th degree, icy cold. Degrees of lati- 

 tude are years ; Woman is " old" at forty-eight. 

 The East is oxygen, the West hydrogen. It 

 rains when eastern clouds mingle with the western. 

 Schellirig. 

 Petrifactions in rocks are not relics of what has 



* Sclielling. 



