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44 of man's grandeur by pointing to his divine descent. This has now become a forbidden course, for the ape stands at his door, together with other horrid animals, showing their teeth knowingly, as if to say, No further! Hence we now try in the opposite direction : the way whither mankind proceeds shall serve as a proof for their grandeur and their kinship with God. Alas, even this is in vain! At the other end of this road stands the funeral urn of the last man and grave-digger (with the inscription, ‘’"Nihil humani a me alienum puto”’’).However highly mankind may be developed perhaps, in the end, it will be on : lower seale that it was in the beginning—a transition to a higher order is no more attainable than the ant and earwig, at the end of their “earthly career," can aspire to a kinship with God and eternity. The becoming takes the “having been"in tow—why should any little star, and again any little species thereon, form an exception to this eternalpanorama? Avaunt such sentimental ideas !

‘’The belief in paroxysm.’’—People with exalted and ecstatic fits, who, for the sake of contrast and owing to the lavish wear and tear of their nerves, ordinarily are in a miserable and sorrowful mood, look upon these fits as their real selves, as themselves, and upon their misery and dejection as the effect of what is "outside of themselves"; hence their vindictive feelings towards the