were of little importance; and hence their consciences, for the most part, remained clear, and their minds commonly cheerful:  so there arose no artificial, but a truly natural, culture, which yet had this advantage over others, that it was suitable to all ages and ranks, and was generally social by its nature.  For this reason, too, these persons were, in their own circle, truly eloquent, and capable of expressing themselves appropriately and pleasingly on all the tenderest and best concerns of the heart.  Now, good Jung was in this very case.  Among a few persons, who, if not exactly like-minded with himself, did not declare themselves averse from his mode of thought, he was found, not only talkative but eloquent:  in particular, he related the history of his life in the most delightful manner, and knew how to make all the circumstances plainly and vividly present to his listeners.  I persuaded him to write them down, and he promised to do so.  But because, in his way of expressing himself, he was like a somnambulist, who must not be called by name lest he should fall from his elevation, or like a gentle stream, to which one dare oppose nothing lest it should foam, he was often constrained to feel uncomfortable in a more numerous company.  His faith tolerated no doubt, and his conviction no jest.  “While in friendly communication he was inexhaustible, every thing came to a standstill with him when he met with contradiction.  I usually helped him through on such occasions, for which he repaid me with honest affection.  Since his mode of thought was nothing strange to me, but on the contrary I had already become accurately acquainted with it in my very best friends of both sexes; and since, moreover, it generally interested me with its naturalness and na vete,—­he found himself on the very best terms with me.  The bent of his intellect was pleasing to me; nor did I meddle with his faith in miracles, which was so useful to him.  Salzmann likewise behaved towards him with forbearance,—­I say with forbearance, for Salzmann, in conformity with his character, his natural disposition, his age arid circumstances, could not but stand and continue on the side of the rational, or rather the common-sense, Christians, whose religion properly rested on the rectitude of their characters, and a manly independence, and who therefore did not like to meddle or have any thing to do with feelings which might easily have led them into gloom, or with mysticism, which might easily have led them into the dark.  This class, too, was respectable and numerous:  all men of honor and capacity understood each other, and were of the like persuasion, as well as of the same mode of life.  Lerse, likewise our fellow-boarder, also belonged to this number:  a perfectly upright young man, and, with limited gifts of fortune, frugal and exact.  His manner of life and housekeeping was the closest I ever knew among students.  He was, of us all, the most neatly dressed, and yet always