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whom I have been so fondly attached. I should feel myself 

 so constrained by the moderation imposed in my position as a 

 relative, that, with the best intentions and the most overpower- 

 ing sense of the importance of the subject, I could not hope 

 to succeed. Constraint annihilates freedom, without which it is 

 impossible to produce anything satisfactory. It is unnecessary, 

 therefore, for me to seek an excuse in the fact that, should the 

 day be fixed for the 3rd of July, I shall have already left 

 Berlin ; the king's departure is arranged for July 1, and mine 

 (should I not have previously sailed from Hamburg) is fixed 

 for the last day of the present month. My brother was always 

 a warm advocate for the observance of academic rules : it would 

 therefore be in accordance with his wish that the memorial 

 address should be delivered by the secretary of the section 

 of the Academy to which he belonged. You are aware how 

 greatly my brother was interested in the election of our friend 

 Privy-Counsellor Bockh, and how highly he estimated the 

 philosophy of his views upon ancient history. The subject 

 could not be in better hands, for I believe that the character- 

 istic pre-eminently distinguishing my brother was sympathy 

 with the ancients, with which his whole being was penetrated 

 a sympathy which marked him equally as a statesman, a man 

 of letters, a friend or a relative, and left its impress in the grace 

 of his manners, the cheerfulness of his disposition, the strength 

 and worth of his character, the freedom of his thought, and his 

 lofty superiority to the restricting influences of the present age. 

 He always appeared to me as the reflection of man in the 

 highest stage of development as revealed to us in the history 

 of past centuries. Were I to enumerate his achievements, I 

 should mention, first of all, the foundation of the Berlin 

 University and the institutions in connection therewith, the 

 establishment of the Observatory at Konigsberg, since risen to a 

 position of great importance, and the formation of the Museum 

 with which he was entrusted by the king. Of his literary 

 works, I should signalise among his poetical productions the 

 "Agamemnon," the "Odes of Pindar," the Choruses and the poem 

 " Koma ; " and among his prose writings, his essay on " Hermann 

 und Dorothea," which is more properly a disquisition on the art 

 of epic poetry, and his investigations upon the Iberian races, 



