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“NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY

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April 26, Sunday: Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert was born in Hohenstein-Ernstthal. Although he would begin his studies with theology, he would turn to the study of medicine and establish himself for a period as a physician in Altenburg, Thuringia. He would not remain in medical practice, however, but would relocate to Dresden and devote himself to research, and to lecturing on topics such as animal magnetism, clairvoyance, and the interpretation of dreams. Attempting to bring the philosophy of Schelling into accord with the BIBLE, he argued for an ecumenical “awakened Christianity” which would be able to detect the handwork of God not only in the human soul but also in Nature.

NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT

1789

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Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert’s SYMBOLISM OF DREAMS, one of the famous books of its time, that would be perused by E.T.A. Hoffmann, and even by Dr. Sigmund Freud and Dr. Carl Gustav Jung.

LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD?— NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES.

LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD.

1814

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Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert became the professor of natural history in Erlangen, where he would study botany, forestry, mineralogy, and geognosy.

THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT

1819

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William Davis Ticknor left his home on a farm just outside Lebanon, New Hampshire at the age of 17, to work in the brokerage house of his uncle Benjamin Ticknor in Boston.

Professor Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert was made a professor at the University of München. In this post, attempting to produce a religiously grounded interpretation of the cosmos, he would arouse the antagonism of Lorenz Oken.

Cornelius Conway Felton, who had been at least in part working his way through his education by teaching in Concord and in Boston, and at the Round Hill School in Northampton, at this point graduated from Harvard College. Horatio Wood graduated (his copious and carefully written notes on French and Spanish literature per the lectures of Professor George Ticknor, fresh from the German universities, would be preserved, and under the influence of Dr. Karl Follen, Horatio would persist in being a strenuous runner until the 7th decade of his life).

At the Divinity School, the following gentlemen commenced their studies:

• Julian Abbot• Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch (A.B. Col. [Columbia College?])• Francis Cunningham• Joseph Hawley Dorr (A.B. Bowdoin College)• George Washington Hosmer• Josiah Moore• John Owen (A.B. Bowdoin College)• Ephraim Peabody (A.B. Brown University)• Allen Putnam• George Putnam• John Turner Sargent• David Southard• Oliver Stearns

(In these early years of the divinity school there were no formal class graduations, as students would be in the habit of remaining until they wrangled the offer of an appropriate pulpit.)

1827

NEW “HARVARD MEN”

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Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert’s HISTORY OF THE SOUL attempted to bring the philosophies of Johann Gottfried von Herder and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling into accord with the Christian tradition.

THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT

1830

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George Henry Bode’s HISTORY OF GREEK POETRY was reviewed by Professor Cornelius Conway Felton in the North American Review.

During this year Professor Felton completed his translation of Wolfgang Menzel’s 3-volume GERMAN LITERATURE and it appeared as part of the Reverend George Ripley’s SPECIMENS OF FOREIGN LITERATURE.

1840

C.C. FELTON ON BODE

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July: Early in this month Miss Elizabeth Palmer Peabody opened, in the front parlor of the building she had leased at 13 West Street in Boston, her Foreign Library, a bookstore and circulating library.1

At the suggestion of Washington Allston she would stock imported art supplies. One section was allocated to the homeopathic nostrums created by her father, Dr. Nathaniel Peabody. She displayed on the walls the paintings her sister Sophia was offering for sale. Margaret Fuller had staged her “conversations” here in late 1839 and this would continue in the early 1840s. The Reverend William Ellery Channing would stop by to read the newspaper. Sophia would marry Nathaniel Hawthorne at West Street in 1842. The editors of and contributors to THE DIAL would meet there, and for a time in 1842 and 1843 she would publish this journal as well as writing for it (her “A Glimpse of Christ’s Idea of Society,” a piece about Brook Farm, would appear in the October 1841 issue, and her “Fourierism” would appear in the April 1844 issue).

I had ... a foreign library of new French and German books, andthen I came into contact with the world as never before. TheRipleys were starting Brook Farm, and they were friends of ours.Theodore Parker was beginning his career, and all these thingswere discussed in my book-store by Boston lawyers and Cambridgeprofessors. Those were very living years for me.

1. Circulating libraries were privately owned collections of books and periodicals lent out for profit at fixed rates; this institution had its heyday in America in the first half of the 19th Century, just prior to the rise of the public library movement.

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In this year Miss Peabody issued the first of two printed catalogs of her book collection.2 The collection included such titles as GERMAN LITERATURE. TR. FROM THE GERMAN OF WOLFGANG MENZEL. BY C.C. FELTON.... (3 volumes, Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1840),3 Miss Peabody’s edition of Anna Cabot Lowell’s THEORY OF TEACHING, Lamartine’s HISTORY OF THE GIRONDISTS and TRAVELS IN THE EAST, Michelet’s MÉMOIRES DE LUTHER, Waldo Emerson’s NATURE, the Reverend Ripley’s LETTERS ON THE LATEST FORM OF INFIDELITY (a response to Andrews Norton’s attack on Transcendentalism), Robespierre’s MÉMOIRES, and Rosini’s LUISA STROZZI, in addition to classic works by Æschylus, Ludovico Ariosto, Honoré de Balzac, George Bancroft, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Thomas Carlyle, Miguel de Cervantes, the Reverend Channing, Chateaubriand, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Cousin, Dante, Dumas, Euripides, Gerando, Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hesiod, Homer, Victor Hugo, Mirabeau, Molière, Petrarch, Plato, Racine, Richter, Rousseau, George Sand, Schiller, Schlegel, William Shakespeare, Madame de Staël, Alexis de Tocqueville, Voltaire, William Wordsworth, and Xenophon. The collection also included various periodicals such as the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Blackwood’s Magazine, the Boston Quarterly Review, THE DIAL, the Edinburgh Review, the Journal des Literarische Unterhaltung, the London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, the Musical Journal, the New-York Review, the Revue des Deux Mondes, and the Western

2. A facsimile of this catalog still exists, as part of Madeleine B. Stern’s “Elizabeth Peabody’s Foreign Library (1840),” American Transcendental Quarterly, No. 20 Supplement, Part 1, pages 5-12.3. Henry Thoreau would consult this on December 5, 1840. His extracts would consist of quotations from Lorenz Oken and from Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert.

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Messenger.

December 5, Saturday: Documentation of the international slave trade, per W.E. Burghardt Du Bois: “Report of the Secretary of the Navy.” –HOUSE DOCUMENT, 26 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 405, 450.

Henry Thoreau read in GERMAN LITERATURE. TR. FROM THE GERMAN OF WOLFGANG MENZEL. BY C.C. FELTON.... (3 volumes, Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1840; this was Volumes 7-9 of the Reverend George Ripley’s SPECIMENS OF FOREIGN STANDARD LITERATURE, a 9-volume edition that had been being put through the presses at Hilliard, Gray since 1838). His extracts consist of quotations from Lorenz Oken and from Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert.

DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD.

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June 30, Saturday: Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert died at Laufzorn, a village in Oberhaching.

June 30. Try the temperature of the springs and pond. At 2.15 P.M. the atmosphere north of house is83° above zero, and the same afternoon, the water of the Boiling Spring, 45°; our well after pumping, 49°;Brister’s Spring, 49°; Walden Pond (at bottom, in four feet water), 71°; river at one rod from shore, 77°. [2 P.M.,the 1st of July, the air is 77° and the river 75°.] I see that the temperature of the Boiling Spring on the 6th ofMarch, 1846, was also 45°, and I suspect it varies very little throughout the year.If you paw into sand, both by day and night, you find the heat to be permanently greatest some three inches (to-day) below the surface, and this is about [the] depth at which the tortoises place their eggs. Where thetemperature is highest permanently and changes least between night and day.

At 2 P. M. the river is six inches above summer level.Generally speaking, the fields are not imbrowned yet, but the freshness of the year is preserved. Standing on theside of Fair Haven Hill the verdure generally appears at its height, the air clear, and the water sparkling (afterthe rain of yesterday), and it is a world of glossy leaves and grassy fields and meads.The foliage of deciduous trees is now so nearly as dark as evergreens that I am not struck by the contrast.I think that the shadows under the edge of woods are less noticed now because the woods themselves are darker.So, too, with the darkness and shadows of elms.Seen through this clear, sparkling, breezy air, the fields, woods, and meadows are very brilliant and fair. Theleaves are now hard and glossy (the oldest), yet still comparatively fresh, and I do not see a single acre of grassthat has been cut yet. The river meadows on each side the stream, looking toward the light, have an elysianbeauty. A light-yellow plush or velvet, as if some gamboge had been rubbed into them. They are by far the mostbright and sunny-looking spots, such is the color of the sedges which grow there, while the pastures and hillsidesare dark-green and the grain-fields glaucous-green. It is remarkable that the meadows, which are the lowest part,should have this lightest, sunniest, yellowest look.Now that season begins when you see the river to be so regularly divided longitudinally into pads, smooth water,and sparkling ripples between, in a clear day. The older white oak leaves have now a blue or dark-purplish bloom on their cheeks or prominences, which youcan rub off, leaving them green.The grasses of Sedge Path are the early sedge (which is much of it turned by a smut), Festuca ovina, and theCarex siccata. Bromus secalinus by Walden, say yesterday. This and that in Farmer’s barley the same, thoughsome is downy and some smooth, and it does not open much in bloom because the glume does not reach beyondmiddle of second flower.I hear no toads to speak of, of late, except a few at evening.See in the garden the hole in which a toad sits by day. It is a round hole about the width of his body across, andextending under one side about the length of my little finger; in the main, indeed, shaped like a turtle’s nest, butnot so broad beneath and not quite so deep.

There sits the toad, in the shade, and concealed completely under the ground, with its head toward the entrance,waiting for evening. This was on the side of a corn-hill.They are now cutting clover. Scirpus subterminalis is apparently just beginning at the Pout’s Nest, the waterbeing very low.There is a turnip-like weed now in flower and going to [seed], a pest in grain-fields; same as I noticed formerlyin Stow’s field; say six weeks. Is it Brassica campestris? [Vide Aug. 19th.]

1860

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“MAGISTERIAL HISTORY” IS FANTASIZING: HISTORY IS CHRONOLOGY

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“It’s all now you see. Yesterday won’t be over untiltomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.”

– Remark by character “Garin Stevens”in William Faulkner’s INTRUDER IN THE DUST

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Prepared: December 9, 2014

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ARRGH AUTOMATED RESEARCH REPORT

GENERATION HOTLINE

This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by ahuman. Such is not the case. Instead, someone has requested thatwe pull it out of the hat of a pirate who has grown out of theshoulder of our pet parrot “Laura” (as above). What thesechronological lists are: they are research reports compiled byARRGH algorithms out of a database of modules which we term theKouroo Contexture (this is data mining). To respond to such arequest for information we merely push a button.

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Commonly, the first output of the algorithm has obviousdeficiencies and we need to go back into the modules stored inthe contexture and do a minor amount of tweaking, and then weneed to punch that button again and recompile the chronology —but there is nothing here that remotely resembles the ordinary“writerly” process you know and love. As the contents of thisoriginating contexture improve, and as the programming improves,and as funding becomes available (to date no funding whateverhas been needed in the creation of this facility, the entireoperation being run out of pocket change) we expect a diminishedneed to do such tweaking and recompiling, and we fully expectto achieve a simulation of a generous and untiring roboticresearch librarian. Onward and upward in this brave new world.

First come first serve. There is no charge.Place requests with <Kouroo@kouroo.info>. Arrgh.