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on my brother's first erudition. You don't make any 

 mention of my talkativeness. I trust it will not be a 

 source of trouble to me. We have succeeded with 

 Buelow. He may be here next Saturday. It may be 

 the beginning of something good ; or the end of it le 

 bouquet the stage effect of foot-lights. I met with 

 Tholuk and Bekedorff yesterday at Potsdam at dinner. 

 !No other occasion would have favored me with their 

 apparition. With constant devotion yours, 



A. HT. 



ee. 



HUMBOLDT TO YAKNHAGEtf. 



BERLIN, April Qtk, 1842. 



SINCE the inquisitorial sentence against Bruno (Bauer) 

 has been so presumptuously published, I deem it my 

 duty to retain your Strauss no longer. I return you 

 that remarkable book, which caused me to indulge 

 in much meditation. Accept my best thanks. The 

 method of the author is excellent; it makes us ac- 

 quainted with the whole history of the faith of our 

 time, particularly so with the Jesuitical trick of so many 

 people who declare publicly their belief in and their 

 adherence to all the dogmas of the Christian mythology, 

 after the fashion of Schleiermacher, and after having 



