| His contemporary, Goethe, was sojourning in Strassburg at that time, where he was cultivating a love affair. |
| We recall Goethe writing The Sorrows of Young Werther, which set off a wave of suicides in Europe in imitation of the eponymous hero. |
| That Goethe is looking at parts of the same organism, while Darwin is treating of entire organismic forms of related groups is beside the point. |
| The German ambassador and the director of the Goethe Institut rode on tilburies with the immense crowd on each side of the street welcoming them. |
| Mildred spent the last month of her life translating works of Goethe in her cell. |
| Goethe employs the fiction that an editor-figure publishes, with an epilogue, the authentic letters of a young man who commits suicide. |
