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" Press but ever onward," added Goethe, with fervid animation, 

 " youthful German people, and weary not in your progress on the way 

 we have entered upon ! Give yourselves up to no mannerism — to no 

 onesidedness of any kind, under what name soever it finds its way 

 among you. Know that whatever severs us from Nature is false. 

 The path of Nature is that in which you must tread, if you would 

 meet Bacon, Homer, and Shakespeare. On all sides there is much 

 to do. See, but with your own eyes, and hear with your own ears." 



"I maintain that] some are even born eclectics in philosophy,. and 

 when eclecticism proceeds from the inward nature of the man, that, 

 too, is good, and I will never make it a reproach to him. How often 

 do we find men who are, from natural disposition, half stoics and half 

 epicureans ! It would not astonish me at all if such men adopted the 

 principles of both systems, and tried, as far as possible, to reconcile 

 them." 



"Aye, indeed — if I could but manage to write a work — but I am too 

 old for that — that would make the Germans hate and revile me 

 heartily for the next fifty or hundred years, and say nothing but evil 

 of me from one end of the country to the other — that would delight me 

 inexpressibly ! " 



" Where knowledge is full and satisfactory, indeed, we stand 

 not in need of faith ; but where knowledge falls short, or appears 

 inadequate, we must not contest with faith its rights. As soon as 

 we set out from the principle that knowledge and faith are not 

 given to destroy each other, but to supply each other's deficiencies, 

 we shall come near to an accurate estimate of the right." 



(To be continued.) 



EXHIBITION OF FUNGI AT THE HASLEMERE 

 MUSEUM. 



An exhibition of fungi was held throughout October in the 

 Museum Vivarium and was the subject of considerable local 

 interest. Young and old brought specimens for display and 

 identification. An organised fungus foray took place one 

 Saturday afternoon, and was well attended. A gardener 

 brought in one of the largest specimens of the Coral Fungus 



