On the Art of Fermentation

by discussing them together, the old and the new coalesce, as it were, into one, and put on a new appearance.

Now indeed, kind reader, brighten your countenance; receive with a cheerful mind a chalice full of old zythos, which I deem fit to be drunk to you; and do not disdain to drain it in the German manner, but take care that you are not overwhelmed by that wine, or that the vapors of the jar be upon your breath the next day. Now farewell, and continue to be favorable. Written at Jena in Saxony, on the third day before the Kalends of October, 1804.