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BETTINA, 153
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prudent than this diligent little insect , she forgot to provide for the coming winter , and showed the greatest disinclination for everything
bordering upon practical knowledge . A description of one of her lessons on history , will best illustrate
her way of dealing with any serious topic . Teacher , " The ancient history of Egypt is dark and uncertain . "
Beltina . " Thank God , otherwise I should have to learn that also . " Teacher .- " Menes is the first king known to us . "
Bettina . " All right . That is if he did good . " Teacher . "He built Memphis and diverted the course of the Nile
into another bed . Sesostris the conqueror killed himself . "
Bettina . "Why did he do so ? "Was lie young , melancholy , and handsome ; was he in love ?"
The teacher had no reply to make to these questions , and when Bettina began to demonstrate that Sesostris ought to have been
young , merely that he might set the wheel of time in motion , which was stopped too often by the tiresome rubbish of history , the teacher
lost heart and left her in disgust . Bettina , glad of her freedom , hastened out of doors , climbed upon the roof of the pigeon-house ,
and astonished the birds by playing the flageolet . The sun was setting and shed his golden lustre over mountain and valley . The
last rosy tinge of the evening clouds died away , night set in , the moon rose upon Bettina , seated on her lofty throne and filling the
air with sweet melodiesthe trees rustled in soft whispers around , herthe moon listened along the waves of the Rhine , which . " sparkled
like , a silver g thread in the distanceniht surrounded her with mysterious silence , while in fancy , sprites , g and nymphs encircled her
in fairy-ring and paid their elfin homage . Bettina wrote to her friend about her last success in history , and
Karoline von Giinderode replied as follows : — knowled " How will ? you Wh be do able to not comprehend your mind self to receive if you do the not impressions first acquire of you open your
history development History ? ge contains Is and it because y the improvement elements the material within of intellectu us is have more al progress been powerful sown . than b The y the germs yourself past , in of ?
virtue are reflected of which m it the represents human one mind part . of The eternity first . constitutes The past the and cradle the future of a but thoug it ht forms , the latter the connecting the aim to which link between it is tending the . past Geniu and s the indeed future is eternal . The ,
interval Every moment we conceive , however as , separating which is not these imbued for two , with we actions desi eternity gnate is but is . as lost the time present , for .
we which of the have past we failed are , an answerable attempt is as dew to . make To the account up for lected what one field is ' s lost of . the The past recognition . a reproduction It fructifies that
the " still Show remaining a little more germs upon for the future neg in . historical studiesand believe perseverance your ,
me that they are necessary to elevate your mind and to . i ' ree it from fancies and wrong notions .
" _Kaholeste . "
Bettina, 153
BETTINA , 153
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/9/
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