Humboldt's Letters. 59 



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HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



SATURDAY, July 1st, 1837. 



TO-MORROW to Tegel,* and on Monday I depart for 

 the eternal spring,f at which the sight of the Prince of 

 Warsaw will not lessen my sadness ; I cannot, therefore, 

 thank you personally. Sophie Charlotte J and Hegel's 

 Philosophy of History will accompany me, and both 

 will delight me greatly. My soul rather turns to you. 

 I shall certainly find a torrent of ideas in that Hegel, 

 whom his editor, Gans, in so masterly a manner has not 

 deprived of his great individuality ; but a man who is 

 as I am, like an insect, inseparable from the earth and its 

 natural variations, feels himself uneasy and constrained at 

 an abstract assertion of totally unfounded facts and views 

 on America and the Indian world. At the same time I 

 appreciate what is grand in the conception of Hegel. 



* Tegel, Humboldt's country-seat near Berlin. Tr. 

 \ Toeplitz, a Bohemian bathing-place. Tr. 

 J Biography by Vamhagen. Tr. 



