Diary Entry of August 21, 1877
Daily life continued in its usual pattern, but there was a clear sense that Richard had entered a productive spell. His current reading of witch-lore and Demosthenes sharpened his skepticism toward Gores and other writers who treated imagined things as facts.
Tuesday, August 21:
Life the same, but I have the feeling R. is at work! ... His reading now consists of the Book of Witches and the speeches of Demosthenes; the former interests him greatly and turns him against Görres, who accepts as fact things that have never happened anywhere.