... remember his intercourse with the Wertherian Plessing? That tale pained me exceedingly. We cry, help, help, and there is no help—in man at least. How often I have thought, if I could see Goethe , and tell him my state of mind, he would support and guide me! He would be able to understand; he would show me how to rule circumstances, instead of being ruled by them; and, above all, he would n...