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one would likely not find the man with whom nameless people can joke before the public. In the future, anyone who wants to know from me what I have written, or have not written, should ask me directly as an honest man and with his name signed. For this purpose, the vehicle of an intelligence sheet An "Intelligenzblatt" was a common type of 18th-century German periodical that carried advertisements, official notices, and local news. is not necessary at all. However, should anyone intend to continue using this detour in this matter—and anonymously at that—he should expect nothing more from my side than the coldest contempt for his intrusive anonymity. My peace, my reputation, and my time are too dear to me to involve myself before the public with invisible superiors—or subordinates—or to engage in battle with—gray, green, or yellow monsters. Göchhausen likely refers here to the various colors of the covers of contemporary political or literary pamphlets.

Therefore, for this time, here is the very positive answer to the aforementioned strange inquiry, under the signature of my name:

"No Mr. von Göchhausen in Eisenach is the author of the work: The Final Fate of the Freemason Order."

Anyone who, after this declaration, still intends to hold me as such, or even to name me as such, will surely have the courage to do so under his own name. I declare the entire chatter itself to be a lie, the inventor and the distributors original: "Colporteurs" of the same to be intrusive, malicious spreaders of lies, and that public which has believed such a worthless tale until now, or could believe it henceforth, to be a very—gullible public, and for that very reason, a very insignificant one.

Eisenach, Dec. 25, 1794.

That the alleged correction of the Easter table The "Easter table" or "computus" was the calculation used to determine the date of Easter for future years, a matter of significant mathematical and ecclesiastical importance. from 1796 to 2000, printed in No. 139, p. 1324, Vol. 2, 94, is entirely false, has indeed already been sufficiently shown in No. 150, p. 1438; however, at the request of Prof. Rüdiger himself, it must still be noted here that the gentleman who sent in that correction was mistaken and, as punishment for his premature cen-

-sure, well deserved to be named. At the same time, Prof. Rüdiger announces a printing error in his perpetual calendar, where on page 17 it should read:

Another contribution to the history of secret Jesuitism.

In the Revision Works, Vol. XII, p. 196, note, I read: “The fleshy parts get worms, not as if they were more prone to produce them, but because these are placed inside by Jesuits. This is well known.” This bizarre claim reflects the intense anti-Jesuit sentiment and conspiracy theories prevalent in the late 18th century following the suppression of the Jesuit Order.

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Learned Matters.

Announcement.

Literary collisions A "literary collision" refers to two scholars independently arriving at the same discovery or theory at the same time. are not such a rare phenomenon; however, they may well be rarer of the present kind. The undersigned has undertaken the proofreading of a detailed Greek grammar by the Privy Councilor of the Government Hezel in Gießen, which is being printed here by Severin Publishing, in which the hypothesis is proposed that all Greek verbs receive their endings from eini original: εινι (o, etc.). Accidents prevented this grammar from appearing as early as the last Michaelmas Fair The Michaelmas Fair in Leipzig was one of the two most important book trade events in Germany., and now I find, to my no small astonishment, in the 183rd piece of the Göttingen Notices of Learned Matters, that Dr. Vincent, Headmaster at the Royal Westminster School in London, has proposed the same hypothesis in a treatise titled The Origination of the Greek Verb: An Hypothesis (1794), and by chance has preceded the Privy Councilor in public announcement. However, after a comparison of the details in the Göttingen notice with paragraphs 76–90 and 193 to the end in Hezel’s grammar, the German linguist leaves the Englishman far behind, in that he also traces nouns back to their origin—mostly to the verb—and thereby the entire previous system of Greek...