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HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEtf. 



BERLIN, MONDAY, June 3d, 1839. 



THE book which you lent me, dear friend, is delight- 

 ful,* as everything must be called which characterizes 

 the individuality of men. My brother's letters are 

 excellent indeed. His opinion of the State Chancellor 

 does much credit to his character, and the conclusion, 

 which seems to take away something from the praise 

 bestowed on him, is full of a deep political meaning. 

 He alludes to some other result of greater magnitude, 

 which the development of the world-wide events in 

 question might have produced. 



What pleases me most is the acknowledgment of 

 your talents, of your power of writing; the praise of the 

 high-mindedness exhibited in HahePs letters (to the few 

 who can appreciate them). Adam Mueller's aristocratic 

 fancies and coarsely but naturally sensual princess,f a 



* Dorow's Memoirs and Correspondence, 3d vol 

 f Sophia Wilhelmina, Princess of Baireuth. 



