o continue. The paper is entitled
_Happy Incident_; and may be found in Part I. Volume 1 (pp. 90-96) of
the work referred to. The introductory portion of it we have inserted
in the text at page 109; the remainder, relating to certain scientific
matters, and anticipating some facts of our narrative, we judged it
better to reserve for the Appendix. After mentioning the publication
of _Don Carlos_, and adding that 'each continued to go on his way
apart,' he proceeds:

'His Essay on _Grace and Dignity_ was yet less of a kind to
reconcile me. The Philosophy of Kant, which exalts the
dignity of mind so highly, while appearing to restrict it,
Schiller had joyfully embraced: it unfolded the
extraordinary qualities which Nature had implanted in him;
and in the lively feeling of freedom and self-direction, he
showed himself unthankful to the Great Mother, who surely
had not acted like a step-dame towards him. Instead of
viewing her as self-subsisting, as producing with a living
force, and according to appointed laws, alike the highest
and the lowest of her works, he took her up under the aspect
of some empirical native qualities of the human mind.
Certain harsh passages I could even directly apply to
myself: they exhibited my confession of faith in a false
light; and I felt that if written without particular
attention to me, they were still worse; for in that case,
the vast chasm which lay between us gaped but so much the
more distinctly.

'There was no union to be dreamed of. Even the mild
persuasion of Dalberg, who valued Schiller as he ought, was
fruitless: indeed the reasons I set forth against any
project of a union were difficult to contradict. No one
could deny that between two spiritual antipodes there was
more intervening than a simple diameter of the sphere:
antipodes of that sort act as a sort of poles, and so can
never coalesce. But that some relation may exist between
them will appear from what follows.

'Schiller went to live at Jena, where I still continued
unacquainted with him. About this time Batsch had set in
motion a Society for Natural History, aided by some handsome
collections, and an extensive apparatus. I used to attend
their periodical meetings: one day I found Schiller there;
we happened to go out together; some discourse arose between