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about my comedy, and I of his science; and I
believe we each derived equal pleasure from the
other. But yet I had the advantage, for there
was so much in his performance that he could
not account for: as for instance, that a piece
of iron which falls through a spiral line,
becomes magnetic, – well, how is that? The
spirit comes over it, but whence does it come
from? it is just as with the human beings of
this world, I think; our Lord lets them fall
through the spiral line of time, and the spirit
comes over them – and there stands a Napoleon,
a Luther, or a similar person.
"’All nature is a series of miracles,’ said the
candidate, ’but we are so accustomed to them
that we call them things of every-day life.’
And he spoke and he explained, so that it seemed
at last as if he lifted my scull, and I honestly
confessed, that if I were not an old fellow, I
would go directly to the polytechnic school,
and learn to examine the world in the
summer, although I was one of the happiest of
men.
"’One of the happiest!’ said he, and it
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