articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious
discourse lies the region of meditation."

"Genius is ever a secret to itself."

"The healthy understanding, we should say, is neither the argumentative
nor the Logical, but the Intuitive, for the end of understanding is not
to prove and find reasons but to know and believe" (!)

"The ages of heroism are not ages of Moral Philosophy. Virtue, when it
is philosophised of, has become aware of itself, is sickly and beginning
to decline."

[At the same time more electrical experiments are recorded; and theories
are advanced with pros and cons to account for the facts observed.

The last entry was made three years later:--]

October 1845.--I have found singular pleasure--having accidentally raked
this Buchlein from a corner of my desk--in looking over these scraps of
notices of my past existence; an illustration of J. Paul's saying that a
man has but to write down his yesterday's doings, and forthwith they
appear surrounded with a poetic halo.

But after all, these are but the top skimmings of these five years'
living. I hardly care to look back into the seething depths of the
working and boiling mass that lay beneath all this froth, and indeed I
hardly know whether I could give myself any clear account of it.
Remembrances of physical and mental pain...absence of sympathy, and
thence a choking up of such few ideas as I did form clearly within my