Seeing Herschel or Schelling, or Swede
or Dane, satisfies the conditions, and we can express ourselves
happily.
But Europe has lost weight lately. Our young men go thither in
every ship, but not as in the golden days, when the same tour would
show the traveler the noble heads of Scott, of Mackintosh, Coleridge,
Wordsworth, Goethe, Cuvier, and Humboldt. We remember when arriving
in Paris, we crossed the river on a brilliant morning, and at the
bookshop of Papinot, in the Rue de Sorbonne, at the gates of the
University, purchased for two sous a Programme, which announced that
every Monday we might attend the lecture of Dumas on Chemistry at
noon; at a half hour later either Villemain or Ampere on French
literature; at other hours, Guizot on Modern History; Cousin on the
Philosophy of Ancient History; Fauriel on Foreign Literature; Prevost
on Geology; Lacroix on the Differential Calculus: Jouffroy on the
History of Modern Philosophy; Lacretelle on Ancient History;
Desfontaines or Mirbel on Botany.
Hard by, at the Place du Pantheon, Degerando, Royer Collard,
and their colleagues were giving courses on Law, on the law of
nations, the Pandects and commercial equity.
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