[Footnote 15: It lives more than two years, though it does not long
survive the period of its leaving the grub-state, just as other
insects, to whom nature has given the rose period of youth, only
_after_ the thorny age of reproduction.]
[Footnote 16: It is well known that the sight of blood damps courage,
and that the Jews are not permitted to eat blood.]
[Footnote 17: Beauty in this connection, I adopt in the same sense
which Schiller gives to it in his æsthetic critique, a prize essay of
his genius on Beauty, which here, like Longinus, is at once the subject
and the delineator of the exalted.]
[Footnote 18: If he had been, I would have read page 224 in the third
part of Hesperus to him.]
[Footnote 19: The sun reflected in the water.]
[Footnote 20: At a circumcision, the Jews place one chair for the
operator, and another for the prophet Elias, who is supposed invisibly
to occupy it.]
[Footnote 21: These animals shine by night. Care must be taken not to
draw them into the brain from the flower calyxes with the perfume.]
[Footnote 22: The Guernsey lily from Japan has its name from the Island
of Guernsey, on which some roots of it were cast by a wrecked vessel.]
[Footnote 23: For the climatic dissimilarity of the planets must
produce, as the climatic difference between the zones, Negroes, Greeks,
Indians, etc., but always human beings.]
[Footnote 24: One ought, therefore, not to say _mundus intelligibilis_,
but _mundus intellectus_.]
[Footnote 25: It may be said, that in this manner every Utopia, which
is also a copy, must be realized, for the original of all dreams and
Utopias does indeed exist,--though partially and disconnectedly; but
the Original of the Eternal cannot exist in pieces and by parcels.]
[Footnote 26: This applies chiefly to the higher and richer orders,
with whom the saturation of the five camel stomachs, the senses, and
the starving of Psyche or the soul, at last determines into a horrible
horror of life, and into a repulsive mingling of _high aspirations and
grovelling desires_. The savage, the beggar, and the provincialist far
surpass the rich and high in spiritual enjoyment, for in these, as in
the houses of the Jews, (in memory of the destruction of Jerusalem)
there must always be something incomplete, and the poor have too many
of their earthly wants assuaged to be overwhelmed and pained by the
demands of their ethereal nature.]
[Footnote 27: The new moon always rises with the sun, although dark and
invisible.]
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