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>Friedrich Pecht, Aus meiner Zeit, 2 vols.(Munich, 1894), 1:294): ‘One day when I called on him I found him burning with passion for Hegel’s Phenomenology, which he was just studying, and which, he told me with typical extravagance, was the best book ever printed. To prove it he read me a passage which had particularly impressed him. Since I did not entirely follow it, I asked him to read it again, upon which neither of us could understand it. He read it athird time and a fourth, until in the end we both looked at one another and burst out laughing. And that was the end of phenomenology’. This is found in the chapter10‘Dresden 1846-47’(279-303) hence dating Wagner’sreading of the Phenomenologyin 1846-47.