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on the opposite side, was drawing all his parishioners 

 away from him. On the back of the petition Frederick 

 simply wrote, &quot;Tell him to go and preach on the other 

 side of the river: that will drive his people back again.&quot; 

 Hearing Harnack and his leading colleagues in dis 

 course at the university or academy, or in private, whe 

 ther in their loftier or lighter moods, one could understand 

 why the University of Berlin, though one of the youngest, 

 is the foremost among the universities of the world. 



