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The tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe, with biogr. essay by J.H. Ingram
The tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe with biogr essay by JH Ingram Author:Edgar Allan Poe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET A SEQUEL TO "THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE." Es giebt eine Reihe idealischer Begebenheiten, die der Wirklichkeit parallel lauft.... more » Selten fallen sie zusammen. Menschen und Zufalle modificiren gewohnlich die idealische Begebenheit, so dass sie unvoll- kommen erscheint, und ihre Folge ngleichfalls unvollkommen sind. So bei der Reformation ; statt des Protestantismus kam das Lutherthum hervor. There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide. Men and circumstances generally modify the ideal train of events, so that it seems imperfect, and its consequences are equally imperfect. Thus with the Reformation ; instead of Protestantism came Lutheranism.—Novalis—Moral Ansichten. " There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half-credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unableto receive them. Such sentiments—for the half-credences of which I speak have never the full force of thought—such sentiments are seldom thoroughly stifled unless by reference to the doctrine of chance, or as it is technically termed, the Calculus of Probabilities. Now this Calculus is in its essence purely mathematical; and thus we have the anomaly of the most rigidly exact in science applied to the shadow and spirituality of the most intangible in speculation. Upon the original publication of "Marie Roget," the foot-notes now appended were considered unnecessary; but the lapse of several years since the tragedy upon which the tale is based, renders it expedient to give them, and also to say a few words in explanation of the general design. A young girl, Mary Cecil...« less