uffon....
plus de la rhetorique que de vrai sentiment de la Nature.']

[Footnote 13: Comp. the garden of Elysium in _La Nouvelle Heloise:_
Where the gardener's hand is nowhere to be discerned, nothing
contradicts the idea of a desert island, and I cannot perceive any
footsteps of men ... you see nothing here in an exact row, nothing
level, Nature plants nothing by the ruler.']

[Footnote 14: _OEuvres de Jacques Bernardin Henri de Saint Pierre_.]

[Footnote 15: 'B. de S. Pierre a plus que Rousseau les facultes
propres du paysagiste, l'amour meme du pittoresque, la vive curiosite
des sites, des animaux, et des plants, la couleur et une certaine
magie speciale du pinceau,' Laprade adds the reproof: 'Sa pensee
religieuse est au-dessous de son talent d'artiste et en abaisse le
niveau.']

[Footnote 16: _Voyage round the World_, 1772-1775.]

[Footnote 17: Paul Lemnius, 1597, _Landes Rugiae_; Kosegarten,
1777-1779; Rellstab, 1799, _Ausflucht noch der Insel Ruegen;_ Navest,
1800, _Wanderungen durch die Insel Ruegen_; Gruembke, 1805; _Indigena,
Streifzuege durch das Ruegenland_. J.P. Hackert in 1762, and K. D.
Friedrichs in 1792, painted the scenery. Comp. E. Boll, _Die Inset
Ruegen_, 1858.]

CHAPTER XII

[Footnote 1: Comp. Gottschall, _Poetik_. Breslau, 1853.]

[Footnote 2: _Ueber Ossian und die Lieder alter Voelker_, Saemtliche
_Werke_, Teil 7.]

[Footnote 3: _Op. cit._, Teil 15.]

[Footnote 4: _Zur Philosophie und Gesehichte,_ 2 Teil.]

[Footnote 5: J.G. Sulzer's _Unterredungen ueber die Schoenheit der
Naetur nebst desselben moralischen Betrachtungen ueber besondere
Gegenstaende der Naturlehre_ is typical. Charites describes his
conversion to the love of Nature by his friend Eukrates. Eukrates
woke him at dawn and led him to a hill close by, as the sun rose. The
fresh air, the birds' songs, and the wide landscape move him, and
Eukrates points out that the love of Nature is the 'most natural of
pleasures,' making the labourer so happy that he forgets servitude
and misery, and sings at his work. 'This pleasure is always new to
us, and the heart, provided it be not possessed by vanity or stormy
passions, lies always open to it. Do you not know that they who are
in trouble, and, above all, they who are in love, find their chief
relief here? Is not a sick man better cheered by sunshine than by any
other refreshment?' Then he points out Nature's harmonies and changes
of colour, and warns Charites to avoid the storms