1–5 January 1834

To Goethe there was no trifle. Glauber picked up what everybody else threw away. Cuvier made much of humblest facts. The lower tone you take, the more flexible your voice is. The whole landscape is beautiful, though the particu- lars are not. 'You never are tired whilst you can see far.'

" Newton," says Fourier, " knew not yet the perfections of the universe." " What La Place called great was really great." I read in Her- bert a beautiful verse, a high Example of what the rhetorician calls the moral sublime: — " Ah, my dear God ! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not."