I carried with me to the Alps this year the heavy burden of this evening's work. In the way of new investigation I had nothing complete enough to be brought before you ; so all that remained to me was to fall back upon such residues as I could find in the depths of consciousness and out of them to spin the fiber and weave the web of this discourse. Save from memory I had no direct aid upon the mountains ; but to spur up the emotions on which so much depends as well as to nourish indirectly the intellect and will I took with me two volumes of poetry Goethe's ' Farbenlehre' and the work on ' Logic' recently published by Mr. Alexander Bain. The spur I am sorry to say was no match for the integu ment of dullness it had to pierce. inflicted hurts of genius as it broke itself in vain against the philosophy of Newton. For a time Mr. Bain became my shining generally with a dry light but exhibiting at times most when he became the mirror of my own condition. Neither intellectually nor socially is it good for man to be From certain passages in his book I could infer that Mr. Bain vas no stranger to such sorrows. Take this passage as an illustration. Speaking of the ebb of intellectual force which brings the pain of conflict and the debility of indecision.' ence. The action of the investigator is periodic. He grapples hausts it may be both himself and it for the time being. He breathes a space and then renews the struggle in another field. Now this period of halting between two investiga tions is not always one ot pure repose. It is often a period of doubt and discomfort of gloom and ennui. ' The uncer tainty where to look for the next opening of discovery brings the pain of conflict and the debility of indecision.' Such was my precise condition in the Alps this year ; in a score of words Mr. Bain has heie sketched my mental diagnosis ; and it was under these evil circumstances that I had to equip hands I could by no means shrink from it. Disloyalty other—feebly or strongly
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