194 SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND ACHIEVEMENTS 



conveyed to the Castle Tegel, in order to be 

 placed in the family vault at the side of his 

 brother Wilhelm, who had already rested there 

 for twenty-four years, near the white marble 

 statue of Thorwaldsen, representing Hope. 



On the morning of the funeral, when all eyes 

 were fixed on the momentous war of France and 

 Austria in Italy, we found in a conspicuous 

 place in the Kolnische Zeitung the following 

 lines : 



O ! einen Blick von kriegsbedrohten Statten, 

 Nur einen Blick auf ein geoifnet Grab ! 



Ein grosser Geist will sich zur Ruhe betten, 

 Ein deutscher Alexander sinkt hinab, 



Der ohne Schlacht Unsterbliclikeit errungen, 



TJnd weiter als zum Indus vorgedrungen. 



Napoleon III., in the midst of this war, as 

 soon as the news of Humboldt's death reached 

 him, gave immediately orders that a statue of 

 the great savant should be placed in the gallery 

 of the Chateau de Versailles ; at the side of 

 which the statue of another illustrious man has 

 recently been placed, that of Richard Cobden. 



Humboldt, like all the great lights of the last 

 century, was the offspring of the spirit of Pro- 

 testantism, and like them, a true ornament of 

 genuine Protestantism. During a long life of 

 three generations, he devoted all the remarkable 



