" Brrltx. — Heard Werder on Logic. He made a great fuss about
Besthn/mtheitf and was, as I thought, in a remarkable fix Inmsolf.
When lie wanted to touch upon anything very deep, he laid his foi'o-
finger with its tip between his eyes on the organ of individuality, and
then gradually drew it down the length of his nose. He goes down
so deep, far below the nature of things, that one must take off not
only his clothes, but his Sinnliohk»it — his memory, his common-
sense, imagination, affections, and then he becomes a blosser GeUt,
and is prepared to go down to the deep, deep sea of Philosophy.
" Mem. The pudding-faced youth who tried to comprehend the
distinction between Daseyn and Uoalltd^ and could not.
" Heard Schelling on Offenbarungs-Philosophie. He found a good
deal of fault with Kant, but praised Fichte, and said he had done
great service to philosophy ; thought his * Naturrecht ' his best thing ;
praised the * Way towards a Blessed Life * for its dialectic skill, com-
pared it with Hegers works, which he said were merely mechanical,
though he only alluded to Hegel and did not name him ; some hissed
at the allusion. Then ho added that in his (Ifogers) cnso the work
was mere mechanism, the grinding in a mill, and niun paid much
more attention to the noise of the clapper than to the meal which
was alleged to bo ground. Upon this all laughed.
