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muzzles, " because, without the rescuer* they would 



all have been drenched in blood." Credat Judceu* 

 ApeUa! 



Your faithful, A. v. HUMBOLDT. 



Monday. At another funeral !f 



A workman, unknown to me, addressed me at the 

 funeral of Benjamin Constant : " N'est-ce pas, mon bon 

 Monsieur, vous n'avez rien de si beau en Prusse, mais ce 

 sera bien plus beau quand nous enterrerons M. de la 

 Fayette." 



HUMBOLDT TO VAKNHAGEff. 



BERLIN, July 29th, 1854. 



IN Spain, the virtuous rebels, like the virtuous order 

 of St. John on the Wilhelmsplatz, have raised the cry 

 of " Long live chastity !" " Viva el pudor" (Isabella) ! 

 " Viva la moralidad" (disinterested Christina) ! But, 

 will you, dear friend, think it possible (July, 1854!) 

 that the Minister of Public Worship and Instruction, 



* Louis Napoleon. Tr. 



f Of M. Borsig, a machinist, a few days after that of Mad. Amalia 

 Beer. The old man of eighty-five attended both of them. 





