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In honour of the barometer, an outing to Alexandersbad, despite a most blustery wind. Much mirth over the “triumph of science”: the swallows fly very low, and the wind blows frightfully; yet the road from Berneck to Bischofsgrün is most lovely, with the fir trees nodding in the breeze. In…

R. sets out to see Wölffel, in order finally to obtain clarity regarding the inn matter. He does indeed obtain it — namely, that all will cost more than originally anticipated. – In the afternoon, examination of the two girls in arithmetic, during which R. remarks concerning the decimal system…

As the barometer is falling, we forgo our excursion, despite the fair sunrise and the household's persuasion. A triumph for science; the worst weather indeed arrives, met with great merriment. We think of Eckermann and Goethe. – Frau Wesendonck sends a poem on cremation, which leads us to Mephistopheles’ line:…

Great heat, R. not feeling well, gives up his course of the spring waters. No welcome news from any quarter; the patronages are not increasing, while on the other hand various demands are mounting — for example, Madame Materna demanding 30 gulden per day. Much nonsense among it all: a…

R. somewhat better; in the morning we speak much of Görres's book, tolerable only when considered upon the foundation of Schopenhauer’s philosophy. Around midday, a letter from the children arrives, arousing great torment! … What is to be done? Bitterness. In the evening, another kind of bitterness — Brandt, the…