ioo Humboldt's Letters. 



will, of course, become a shame to this city. ' The Ber- 

 liners are such a daring race of men,' said Goethe, 

 once. That is much the same definition. 5 ' 



53. 



SUMBOLDT TO YARNHAGEN. 



SATURDAY, April Uth, 1841. 



A DISAPPOINTMENT, dear friend, not to have found 

 you. Correct this title-page for me ; I have to send it 

 away. As it is necessary to state, " that this is not the 

 lecture of 1828," I thought of having the long sentence 

 printed on the title-page, in small type, like an apho- 

 rism. It may look strange after the name, but I hope 

 you will be able to approve of it. 



HT. 



" Kosmos. Sketch of a Physical Description of the 

 World, by A. von Humboldt. From Sketches and Lec- 

 tures delivered in the years 1827 and 1828, enlarged 

 and corrected according to the latest researches. 



" ' Naturae vero rerum vis atque majestas sin omnibus 

 momentis fide caret, si quis modo partes ejus ac non to- 

 tam complectatur animo.' Plin.Hist. Nat., lib. 7. c. 1. 

 Stuttgart." 



