The Invisible Lodge Part 26

[Footnote 18: Loco cit.]

[Footnote 19: Loco cit.]

[Footnote 20: Common to several denominations.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 21: A Linnaean cla.s.s with hermaphrodite flowers having five stamens.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 22: Of Saint Theresa.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 23: Even children in the mother's womb. See Allgem. Deutsch.

Bilb., Bd. 67 S. 138.]

[Footnote 24: With which insects make the hole to lay their eggs in.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 25: "Aufgeluftet"--the word _luft_ (Scotch, _lift_) gives a double sense here: _lifting_ to give _air_.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 26: I mean a harpsichord disguised under the form of a table.]

[Footnote 27: In Scheerau, as in some States even at this day, all mourning was forbidden the subjects.]

[Footnote 28: _Fou_' is the Scotch for _tipsy_. See Burns. A German proverb runs: "Voll-toll." These are Jean Paul's words, "Full and foolish."--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 29: Pantheon?--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 30: This remark has in the lat twenty years, if not in France yet in Germany, become much less extensively applicable.]

[Footnote 31: "Gild refined gold." etc.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 32: In a child's story-telling there is the same contempt of finery, of side-glances and brevity, the same naivete, which often seems to us caprice and yet is not, and the same forgetting of the narrator in the narrative, that we find in the stories of the Bible, the elder Greeks, etc.]

[Footnote 33: What the moderns write in the taste of the ancients is little understood; and can it be that the ancients themselves are so frequently understood?]

[Footnote 34: Do all Germans, then, feel the _Messiah_ who are at home in the German language and Biblical history?]

[Footnote 35: Lit.: "Philanthropin." A natural system of education inst.i.tuted by Basidow.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 36: A word coined by Harvey, signifying a corrupt condition of the fluids of the body--hence ill-humor.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 37: The Vehmgericht.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 38: _Stunde_ means both _hour_ and _league_.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 39: "Nature's soft nurse."--Shakespeare.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 40: _Glove_, in German, is _Hand-shoe_.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 41: Gustavus's courage in kissing is, on the whole, natural.

Our s.e.x runs through three periods of boldness toward the other--the first is that of childhood, when one is yet daring with the female s.e.x from want of feeling, etc.--the second is the era of enthusiasm, when one poetizes, but does not dare--the third is the last, in which one has experience enough to be frank and feeling enough to spare and respect the s.e.x. Gustavus's kiss fell in the first period.]

[Footnote 42: _Apotheke_--from the Greek--literally a depository.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 43: Frederick Jacobi in Dusseldorf. Whoever, in reading his Woldemar, the best that has yet been written upon and against the Encyclopedia; or his Allwill--in which he balances the storms of feeling with the sunshine of principle; or his Spinoza and Hume--the best upon philosophy, for and against--has admired the too great condemnation (the effect of the oldest acquaintance with all systems) or the profundity, or the fancy, or some other traits which elevate certain _rarer_ men; such a one's ear will be sorely shocked by the first yelp, amidst which Jacobi had to enter the temple of German fame; but he has only to remember, that in Germany (not in other countries) new energetic geniuses meet always a different reception at the threshold of the temple (_e. g_. from barking Cerberuses) from what they find in the temple itself, where the Priests are; and even a Klopstock, a Goethe, a Herder did not fare otherwise. Nor, in fact, thou, poor Hamann in Konigsberg! How many Mordecais have in the _Universal German Library_ and in other journals, helped build thy gallows and spin for thy hangman's rope: Meanwhile thou hast happily come down from the gallows only seemingly dead.]

[Footnote 44: Heaven grant that the reader may understand all this and still remember in some measure the first sections, where he was informed that the wife of the commercial agent Roper had been the first love of Captain Falkenberg and had brought the agent her first-born child by the Captain as a marriage morning present.]

[Footnote 45: "Si ad illam quae c.u.m virtute degatur, _ampulla aut strigilis_ accedat, sumpturum sapientum eam vitam potius qua haec adjecta sint, nec beatiorem tamen ob eam causam fore." Cic. de. fin.

bon. et mal. L. IV.]

[Footnote 46: The fourth finger.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 47: _Zum Sterben schon_.--"Awfully beautiful."--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 48: _I. e_., Day-board.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 49: A Russian t.i.tle answering nearly to Baron.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 50: _Leuterirt_--lit.: _referred back for explanation_--(a law term)--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 51: _Bank_ means bench in German.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 52: The picture of the lost little one, which he brought with him on his neck from his abductress, and which looked so like himself.]

[Footnote 53: Elementary maxims of the law--a Scotch term.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 54: General experts.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 55: The whole career of his father, _Maria Wutz_, I have appended to Vol. II. of this work. But although it is an episode, which has no other connection with the main work than is given by the thread and paste of the binder, still I trust the world will do me the favor to read it _immediately_ after reading this note.]

[Footnote 56: I have preferred to render word for word what seems to mean a _chronic sickness or soreness_.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 57: This name was given to the English garden around Marienhof, which the spouse of the dead Prince had laid out in a romantic, sentimental spirit, and one that went beyond all rules of art. Some one suggested to her the name and plan of the Silent Land.

But, now even this land is too noisy for her dying soul, and she lives in-doors. Readers who were never there I shall oblige by a description of the garden.]

[Footnote 58: I cannot help it, that my hero is so stupid as to hope to be useful. I am not, but I show in the sequel that the medical treatment of a cacochymic body-politic (_e. g_., better political, educational, and other inst.i.tutions, special edicts, etc.) is like the taking of medicine by a patient of weak nerves, who works against the symptoms and not against the essence of the malady, and undertakes now to sweat off, now to vomit out, or to evacuate, or wash away his sickness by bathing.]

[Footnote 59: The reader will remember that she had journeyed hither from the Resident Lady von Bouse's merely to join in celebrating the paternal birthday.]

[Footnote 60: These few parts I describe but briefly: The _Place of Rest_ is a burnt-out village with a standing church, both of which had to remain as they were, after the Princess had indemnified the inhabitants for the loss of the place and all within a quarter of a league's radius, at the greatest expense and with the help of Herr von Ottomar, to whom it belongs and who is not yet arrived there. The _Flower Islands_ are single, separate, turf-hillocks in a pond, each decked with _one_ different flower. The _Realm of Shadows_ consists of a manifold lattice-and-nest-work of shadow, thrown by great and small foliage, by branches and trellises, bushes and trees in various colors on a ground of pebbles, gra.s.s or water. She had arranged the deepest and the brightest parts of shadow, some for the waning noon, and others for the evening twilight. The _Dumb Cabinet_ was a miserable little house with two opposite doors over each of which hung a veil and which no hand whatever was permitted to unlock, except that of the Princess.

To this day no one knows what is therein, but the veils are destroyed.]

[Footnote 61: A bed invented by one Dr. Graham for lifting the invalid during change of sheets.-(Tr.)]

[Footnote 62: See how Jean Paul has elaborated this same idea in t.i.tan, 21st Cycle.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 63: See this sentiment also worked out still more fully and finely in the last paragraph of the 8th Jubilee of t.i.tan.--(Tr.)]

[Footnote 64: "Erectos ad sidera tollere vultus."--(Tr.)]