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Thus
ended
a
day
memorable
to
me
;
it
decided
my
future
destiny
.
From
this
day
natural
philosophy
,
and
particularly
chemistry
,
in
the
most
comprehensive
sense
of
the
term
,
became
nearly
my
sole
occupation
.
I
read
with
ardour
those
works
,
so
full
of
genius
and
discrimination
,
which
modern
inquirers
have
written
on
these
subjects
.
I
attended
the
lectures
and
cultivated
the
acquaintance
of
the
men
of
science
of
the
university
,
and
I
found
even
in
M.
Krempe
a
great
deal
of
sound
sense
and
real
information
,
combined
,
it
is
true
,
with
a
repulsive
physiognomy
and
manners
,
but
not
on
that
account
the
less
valuable
.
In
M.
Waldman
I
found
a
true
friend
.
His
gentleness
was
never
tinged
by
dogmatism
,
and
his
instructions
were
given
with
an
air
of
frankness
and
good
nature
that
banished
every
idea
of
pedantry
.
In
a
thousand
ways
he
smoothed
for
me
the
path
of
knowledge
and
made
the
most
abstruse
inquiries
clear
and
facile
to
my
apprehension
.
My
application
was
at
first
fluctuating
and
uncertain
;
it
gained
strength
as
I
proceeded
and
soon
became
so
ardent
and
eager
that
the
stars
often
disappeared
in
the
light
of
morning
whilst
I
was
yet
engaged
in
my
laboratory
.
As
I
applied
so
closely
,
it
may
be
easily
conceived
that
my
progress
was
rapid
.
My
ardour
was
indeed
the
astonishment
of
the
students
,
and
my
proficiency
that
of
the
masters
.
Professor
Krempe
often
asked
me
,
with
a
sly
smile
,
how
Cornelius
Agrippa
went
on
,
whilst
M.
Waldman
expressed
the
most
heartfelt
exultation
in
my
progress
.
Two
years
passed
in
this
manner
,
during
which
I
paid
no
visit
to
Geneva
,
but
was
engaged
,
heart
and
soul
,
in
the
pursuit
of
some
discoveries
which
I
hoped
to
make
.
None
but
those
who
have
experienced
them
can
conceive
of
the
enticements
of
science
.
In
other
studies
you
go
as
far
as
others
have
gone
before
you
,
and
there
is
nothing
more
to
know
;
but
in
a
scientific
pursuit
there
is
continual
food
for
discovery
and
wonder
.
A
mind
of
moderate
capacity
which
closely
pursues
one
study
must
infallibly
arrive
at
great
proficiency
in
that
study
;
and
I
,
who
continually
sought
the
attainment
of
one
object
of
pursuit
and
was
solely
wrapped
up
in
this
,
improved
so
rapidly
that
at
the
end
of
two
years
I
made
some
discoveries
in
the
improvement
of
some
chemical
instruments
,
which
procured
me
great
esteem
and
admiration
at
the
university
.
When
I
had
arrived
at
this
point
and
had
become
as
well
acquainted
with
the
theory
and
practice
of
natural
philosophy
as
depended
on
the
lessons
of
any
of
the
professors
at
Ingolstadt
,
my
residence
there
being
no
longer
conducive
to
my
improvements
,
I
thought
of
returning
to
my
friends
and
my
native
town
,
when
an
incident
happened
that
protracted
my
stay
.
One
of
the
phenomena
which
had
peculiarly
attracted
my
attention
was
the
structure
of
the
human
frame
,
and
,
indeed
,
any
animal
endued
with
life
.
Whence
,
I
often
asked
myself
,
did
the
principle
of
life
proceed
?
It
was
a
bold
question
,
and
one
which
has
ever
been
considered
as
a
mystery
;
yet
with
how
many
things
are
we
upon
the
brink
of
becoming
acquainted
,
if
cowardice
or
carelessness
did
not
restrain
our
inquiries
.
I
revolved
these
circumstances
in
my
mind
and
determined
thenceforth
to
apply
myself
more
particularly
to
those
branches
of
natural
philosophy
which
relate
to
physiology
.
Unless
I
had
been
animated
by
an
almost
supernatural
enthusiasm
,
my
application
to
this
study
would
have
been
irksome
and
almost
intolerable
.
To
examine
the
causes
of
life
,
we
must
first
have
recourse
to
death
.
I
became
acquainted
with
the
science
of
anatomy
,
but
this
was
not
sufficient
;
I
must
also
observe
the
natural
decay
and
corruption
of
the
human
body
.
In
my
education
my
father
had
taken
the
greatest
precautions
that
my
mind
should
be
impressed
with
no
supernatural
horrors
.
I
do
not
ever
remember
to
have
trembled
at
a
tale
of
superstition
or
to
have
feared
the
apparition
of
a
spirit
.
Darkness
had
no
effect
upon
my
fancy
,
and
a
churchyard
was
to
me
merely
the
receptacle
of
bodies
deprived
of
life
,
which
,
from
being
the
seat
of
beauty
and
strength
,
had
become
food
for
the
worm
.
Now
I
was
led
to
examine
the
cause
and
progress
of
this
decay
and
forced
to
spend
days
and
nights
in
vaults
and
charnel-houses
.
My
attention
was
fixed
upon
every
object
the
most
insupportable
to
the
delicacy
of
the
human
feelings
.
I
saw
how
the
fine
form
of
man
was
degraded
and
wasted
;
I
beheld
the
corruption
of
death
succeed
to
the
blooming
cheek
of
life
;
I
saw
how
the
worm
inherited
the
wonders
of
the
eye
and
brain
.
I
paused
,
examining
and
analysing
all
the
minutiae
of
causation
,
as
exemplified
in
the
change
from
life
to
death
,
and
death
to
life
,
until
from
the
midst
of
this
darkness
a
sudden
light
broke
in
upon
me
--
a
light
so
brilliant
and
wondrous
,
yet
so
simple
,
that
while
I
became
dizzy
with
the
immensity
of
the
prospect
which
it
illustrated
,
I
was
surprised
that
among
so
many
men
of
genius
who
had
directed
their
inquiries
towards
the
same
science
,
that
I
alone
should
be
reserved
to
discover
so
astonishing
a
secret
.
Remember
,
I
am
not
recording
the
vision
of
a
madman
.
The
sun
does
not
more
certainly
shine
in
the
heavens
than
that
which
I
now
affirm
is
true
.
Some
miracle
might
have
produced
it
,
yet
the
stages
of
the
discovery
were
distinct
and
probable
.
After
days
and
nights
of
incredible
labour
and
fatigue
,
I
succeeded
in
discovering
the
cause
of
generation
and
life
;
nay
,
more
,
I
became
myself
capable
of
bestowing
animation
upon
lifeless
matter
.
The
astonishment
which
I
had
at
first
experienced
on
this
discovery
soon
gave
place
to
delight
and
rapture
.
After
so
much
time
spent
in
painful
labour
,
to
arrive
at
once
at
the
summit
of
my
desires
was
the
most
gratifying
consummation
of
my
toils
.
But
this
discovery
was
so
great
and
overwhelming
that
all
the
steps
by
which
I
had
been
progressively
led
to
it
were
obliterated
,
and
I
beheld
only
the
result
.
What
had
been
the
study
and
desire
of
the
wisest
men
since
the
creation
of
the
world
was
now
within
my
grasp
.
Not
that
,
like
a
magic
scene
,
it
all
opened
upon
me
at
once
:
the
information
I
had
obtained
was
of
a
nature
rather
to
direct
my
endeavours
so
soon
as
I
should
point
them
towards
the
object
of
my
search
than
to
exhibit
that
object
already
accomplished
.
I
was
like
the
Arabian
who
had
been
buried
with
the
dead
and
found
a
passage
to
life
,
aided
only
by
one
glimmering
and
seemingly
ineffectual
light
.
I
see
by
your
eagerness
and
the
wonder
and
hope
which
your
eyes
express
,
my
friend
,
that
you
expect
to
be
informed
of
the
secret
with
which
I
am
acquainted
;
that
can
not
be
;
listen
patiently
until
the
end
of
my
story
,
and
you
will
easily
perceive
why
I
am
reserved
upon
that
subject
.
I
will
not
lead
you
on
,
unguarded
and
ardent
as
I
then
was
,
to
your
destruction
and
infallible
misery
.
Learn
from
me
,
if
not
by
my
precepts
,
at
least
by
my
example
,
how
dangerous
is
the
acquirement
of
knowledge
and
how
much
happier
that
man
is
who
believes
his
native
town
to
be
the
world
,
than
he
who
aspires
to
become
greater
than
his
nature
will
allow
.
When
I
found
so
astonishing
a
power
placed
within
my
hands
,
I
hesitated
a
long
time
concerning
the
manner
in
which
I
should
employ
it
.
Although
I
possessed
the
capacity
of
bestowing
animation
,
yet
to
prepare
a
frame
for
the
reception
of
it
,
with
all
its
intricacies
of
fibres
,
muscles
,
and
veins
,
still
remained
a
work
of
inconceivable
difficulty
and
labour
.
