[86]: Our professor's method is not, in any case, that of common school logic, where the truths all stand in a row, each holding by the skirts of the other; but at best that of practical reason, proceeding by large intuition over whole systematic groups and kingdoms; whereby, we might say, a noble complexity, almost like that of Nature, reigns in his philosophy, or spiritual picture of Nature: a mighty maze, yet, as faith whispers, not without a plan.
[87]: To know a thing, what we can call knowing, a man must first love the thing, sympathize with it. (On Heroes, p. 167.)
[88]: Fantasy is the organ of the Godlike; the understanding is indeed thy window; too clear thou canst not make it, but fantasy is thy eye, with its colour-giving retina, healthy or diseased.
[89]: Gœthe au premier rang.
[90]: M. Renan.
[91]: Principalement M. Stanley et M. Jowett.
[92]: Graphic.
[93]: However it may be with Metaphysics, and other abstract science originating in the head (Verstand) alone, no Life-Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie), such as this of Clothes pretends to be, which originates equally in the Character (Gemüth), and equally speaks thereto, can attain its significance till the Character itself is known and seen.
[94]: Sartor, p. 75, 76, 83, 259.
[95]: For Matter, were it never so despicable, is Spirit, the manifestation of Spirit: were it never so honourable, can it be more? The thing visible, nay the thing imagined, the thing in any way conceived as visible, what is it but a garment, a clothing of the higher, celestial invisible "unimaginable, formless, dark with excess of bright?"