Fifthly and finally. It is well known that the deceased authoress, Ehrmann, when the advocate Ehrmann had accepted and noticed with much approbation one of her works in the Strassburg Gazette, married him on account of the review. If the editor of some journal play his cards so adroitly that a female coadjutor in the magazine shall welcome and announce my Second Edition of Hesperus (or Star Venus) with the admiration which the First Edition universally receives on account of its charms; and if he will only tip me a wink as to the sex of my reviewer,--in which connection, however, _this_ must be looked to, that the critical person shall be, on the whole, still in the best blooming period of a reviewer's life, wherein one can still readily feel and impart and favorably review the fire of the Evening Star or Venus, and so much the more, as even in physics only green wood is a conductor of the electrical flame, but dry a nonconductor,--if the editor will see to and execute all this, then the author of this anticritique pledges himself with his signature to wait upon the coadjutress immediately after the receipt of the review, and with the usual ceremonies to marry her. JEAN PAUL FR. RICHTER. Hof in Voigtland, June 8, 1797. NINTH INTERCALARY DAY. VICTOR'S ESSAY ON THE RELATION OF THE SOUL TO THE ORGANS. Victor was an enemy to the exclusive taste in philosophy quite as much as in poetry. On all systems--even of the heretics of Epiphanius and of Walch--the form of truth is imprinted, as the human form is in the bestial kingdom, although in bolder and bolder lines. No man can believe in nonsense proper, although he may speak it. Singular it is, that precisely the _consequent_ or consistent systems, without the atomic _Clinamen_[132] of feeling, deviate from each other the most widely. Systems, like the passions, only at the focal distance throw the brightest point of light upon the object;--how pitifully, e. g., does the great theory of self-subjugation run out of _Christianity_ over into _Stoicism_,--then into _Mysticism_,--then into _Monachism_, till the stream spreads out and oozes away into _Fohism_, as the Rhine loses itself in the sand!--The theory of Kant, with all logical systems, has this tendency to run into sand, and has that deflection[133] of feeling in common with the inconsequent ones, which brings together the wasting arms again to a renewing fountain-head. The two hands of the Pure Reason, which in the antinomy[134] scratched and beat each other, the Practical Reason peacefully joins together, and presses them, folded, to the heart, and says, here is a God, a Conscious Person, and an Immortality!----