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GOETHE.

Memo contra deum nisi deus ipse
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SucH the motto prcxcd By Goethe the books OF
Dch,ung und Wahrheit' Fancy and TRUTH. These
books record the hopr OF turning 'dc IN his hc the time
when he called for choice at the Parting of tn
Wavs" From thesc months which gave the of hs
youth the crisis ofhis manhood date the birth of Egmon
and of Faust too though the latter published
early They the and decline his love for Lii
apparently the love he knew. That hc was
himself dissatisfied with the results which the decisions
,hi. era led him, may infer from his choice of motto
and the calm beauty with which he has invested the
record


The Parting of the Ways The way he took led to court
favor wealth. celebrity, and independence of celebrity
1t led large performance and wonderful economical
management OF intellect 1t led Faust the Seeker the
nights of his mind the trsddcn ways of the world
There indeed he did lose sight of the meuntans hut he
never breathed their keen air again.


After this period we find in him rather wide and deep
Wisdom, than the inspirations of Genius His faith that nil
we'll the sweetness ot pietv and the God
he maneSts of law necessity rather than of
intelligent love. As this God makes because he must So
Goethe his instrument observes and because he
observing with fidelity the outward exposition
of nature, blinded by sham detained By fear he
yet makes feel thar he her sacred secret
The cansS OF writer's docs give epose because
difficult To hnd his centre Those flame like natures
which he UNDERWRITERS give peace and hope through
their restless aspirations, than he with his heaenclesed


fires of steady ulhmen For true as is that God ever,
where, not only him. but see hs acknow
Through the consciousness of shall not Nature
interpret God :" We wander in diversity and vith
each turning of the path long anew to be rfra ~
the One.


OF Goethe, of other where the intellect i too


much developed in proportion the moral nature it Is diff
cult to speak without seeming narrow bhsd and nn.rr
nent For such all that Others IRE and If YOU feel


of faculty them, il is hard say they have 1t not
lest they puzzle YOU by giving indication
it. Yet they NAY SnOr they only discern
The difference that between sight and life, preScencc and
being wisdom and love- Thus with Goethe Naturally OF
deep mind and hasw heart he felt the sway of the aaec-
mons enough appreciate then working in other but
never enough receive their inuost egenerang influence


How this might have been had he abandoned
himself entirely TO sentiment, it impossible say But
his natural tendency His father was senteman, Marti
dull. sour, we-inormSd and great ambition
extenas His influence the son was wholly artificial
He was always turning his powerful mind from side to side
search OF information for the a,tanen, of what are called