336 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
existence carries with it some grand and glorious significance. He 
cannot but feel more and more as he strives to peer into the 
depths of his own being, and to grip in thought the vast universe, 
that the astounding personal energy which can perform or even 
attempt such a feat is a reality of the first rank, and bears on its 
nature the mark of its origin, and the shadowing of its destiny. 
And in so far as this personal energy is beautified with a goodness 
which blesses by its very presence will those faculties become more 
calm and clear, by which wider realms of truth are traversed, and 
the relations of the seen and the unseen are more distinctly recog- 
nized and enjoyed. 
BOOKS AND LIBEARIES OF YORE. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY MONS. O. W. R. BRUGMANN. 
(Read 4tb. October, 1883.) 
The old MSS. and parchments. Period, 1250-1500 (princi- 
pally). Libraries as they were then. Copyists : their numbers, 
lives, work. Librarians : something about them and their position. 
Ecclesiastical and lay libraries. Influence of books of yore on 
people. French libraries probably most perfect. 
