text:  On Sunday the 11th January 1829 he was engaged in composing a lecture which was to be delivered on the following Wednesday and had just come to the significant words--"_Das ganz vollendete und voll-kommene Verstehen selbst aber_"--"The perfect and complete understanding of things however"--when the mortal palsy suddenly seized his hand and before one o'clock on the same night he had ceased to philosophize