The maxim of the broad and high-minded Leibnitz (1646-1715), Everything is for the best in the best of possible worlds, would have recommended him: and his theory of monads, each a mirror of the universe; their effort; the continuity of unorganized and organized creation, and "preestablished harmony," seemed to lead the way to the Evolution doctrines of the nineteenth century.
Page 108, note 1. Oken and Goethe saw in the skull a few modified vertebrae. To Oken the whole trunk with all its systems was repeated in the head with due modifications.
Page 109, note 1. Mr. Emerson wrote in his journal while crossing the Atlantic on his return from Europe in 1833:—
"I believe in this life. I believe it continues. As long as I am here I plainly read my duties as with a pencil of fire. They speak not of death. They are woven of immortal thread."
The notion of the plane of daemonic life, between those of mortal and celestial, is told of in the Symposium of Plato, and the image is used in the poem "Initial, Daemonic, and Celestial Love."
Page 111, note 1. Dr. James J. Garth Wilkinson, "the editor of Swedenborg, the annotator of Fourier, and the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to physics and to physiology a native vigor with a catholic perception of relations equal to the highest attempts, and a rhetoric like the armory of the invincible knights of old. There is in the action of his mind a long Atlantic roll not known except in deepest waters, and only lacking what ought to accompany such powers, a manifest centrality."(English Traits.)
Page 112, note 1. Among some notes for a lecture on
