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nations, from country to country, from one 

 part of the world to the other. He was indeed 

 Alexander the Great in science, the greatest 

 intellectual hero of this century. 



The simplicity of his life was in perfect har- 

 mony with his inheritance. He neither left any 

 real property, nor yet a will. His library, 

 jewels, and pictures, he had conveyed, by a deed 

 of gift, to his faithful servant Seiffert. 



He was buried in a princely style on the 10th 

 May. He had been for many years a most 

 faithful friend of the royal house of Prussia, 

 a high officer of state, and an intellectual hero, 

 who had laboured for more than two genera- 

 tions, without intermission, in the furtherance 

 of the intellectual progress of mankind.* 



By order of the Prince Regent, his funeral 

 was a public one. But it is certain, that not 

 the pomp of the funeral procession prompted 

 almost the entire population of Berlin, even the 

 poorest labourer, to line the road, and await, 

 bareheaded, the arrival of the remains of the 

 great dead. No, it was the universal con- 



* Of him it may be said, in the words of the poet : 



" His virtues walked a mighty round, 

 Nor made a pause, nor left a void : 

 And sure the eternal Master found 

 His single talent well employed." 



