Of these assumptions he notices only that of Professor Haeckel, "the Prophet of jena," who protests against such limitations of our possibilities as treason to the sacred cause of Evolution.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard
One of them might be pictured as he trudged with Father Jahn from door to door through the Rhine country, or shouldering at sixteen a heavy musket in the Landwehr's ranks to drive the tyrant Napoleon from the beloved Fatherland Later, aged before his time, his wife dead of misery, decrepit and prison-worn in the service of a thankless country, his hopes lived again in Carl, the swordsman of jena.
"The Crisis, Volume 6"
Winston Churchill
Such an interview, for example, as that between Goethe and Heine-where the younger poet, after thinking all the way what fine things to say to Goethe, was so disconcerted by the awe-inspiring presence of the master, that he could find nothing better to say than that the plums on the road-side between jena and Weimar were remarkably good-would have been impossible with one so eager always to give of her best.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
