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itual worlds. His books on " The Spirit in Nature,'' " Nmt*ral Science 

 and Spiritual Culture," "Natural Science ip its relation tg Poetry and 

 Religion" — must be and continue classic works, whatever may be indi- 

 vidual views of the correctness of their philosophy. The bishop of See- 

 land has very recently published a severe attack upon Oersted's views, 

 occasioned by the publication of his ^*' Geist in der Natur.'*'* But although 

 Denmark has been one of the last continental nations to learn how 

 little our knowledge of the truth is advanced or facilitated by contests 

 between theologians and scientists; the reception of Bishop Mynster's 

 book shows that the great fact — that the true interpretation of revela- 

 tions through moral and through physical media must necessarily coin- 

 cide — is now at last appreciated in Denmark also. 



The fiftieth anniversary (jubilee) of Oersted^^ appointment to his 

 prot^essorship in the University of Copenhagen was recently celebrated 

 with great pomp. All ranks vied in showing him honor. The king 

 conferred on him the highest civil distinction, — the grand cross of the 

 Donnebrog — the University sent new insignia of his Doctor's degree, 

 with a gold ring bearing a carved head of Minerva, and the citizens 

 presented him with a beautiful counlryseat at Friedrichsburg, in the 

 immediate environs of the capital. A late newspaper in narrating the 

 facts, adds, 'MCin^ and poople aorree in a stransje estimate of the value 

 and station of the scientific man, accordinir to our insular notions, ^g 

 do not see how they could have improved on thife sort of testimonial if 

 he had gained a battleT' 



The following account of his burial is from the Athenceum, of April 

 5: — "It may perhaps be interesting to some of our readers to know 

 how they bury a philosopher in Denmark. The illustrious Oersted has 

 gone to his grave with a cortege such as waits on the funeral march of 

 kings. Thirty thousand persons — one-fourth of the entire population 

 of the capital — formed the procession which conducted him to his final 

 place of repose. « At*'the head of this crowd, the King was represented 

 by his first aide-de-camp, — followed by the heir to the crown and other 

 princes of the blood. Then came the Chambers of the Diet, the Min- 

 isters, the Council of State, the Clergy, the Professors of the University 

 and of the other educational establishments of Copenhagen, the Acade- 

 mies of Science and Fine Arts and other learned corporations, the 

 army statf, nearly all the members of the diplomatic body, the munici- 

 ipality, the youth of the schools, the trading corporations, and finally 

 men of every rank and class — all contributing their several distinctions 

 to swell the one a^t of i^omage to him who had done so much to popu- 

 larize science in Denmark. The thing was not according to the rules: 



the Herald was not fairly represented in a procession like this. But 

 rules which were to be immutable are giving way on every hand: — 

 and the Herald, who shows as so great a figure throu<''h the twilight of 

 the middle ages, i^ a mere phantom in the light of modern days." 



B. A. G. 



Jacoei.^— Carl Gustav Jacob Jacosi was born in Potsdam, 1804, 

 Dec. 10. His father wai^a silversmith, of the Jewish faith. He was 

 educated under the care of his uncle, F. A. Lehmann, and entered the 

 Gymnasium at Potsdam in 1816, the Berlin University in 1820, divid- 

 ing his studies bet we eft the three depart^nents, Mathematics, Philosophy 

 and Philology. His Dissertation on leaving the University in 1825, is 



