138 ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. 



All ranks gathered at the public funeral, for all, 

 from king to peasant, had lost a friend. With un- 

 covered head, the Prince Kegent received the pro- 

 cession at the door of the cathedral, amid the toll- 

 ing of the bells, and then they buried him at the 

 summer home of his childhood, Tegel, by the side 

 of William. 



A new edition of his select works, including 

 " Cosmos," was published in Stuttgart, in 1874, in 

 thirty-six volumes. 



Great in learning, great in achievement, great in 

 will-power; unwise sometimes in utterance, as in 

 the Varnhagen letters how seldom is it safe or 

 wise to express our inmost thoughts ; sarcastic 

 sometimes in his language a dangerous power; to 

 be used sparingly, if indeed ever, and yet withal 

 a noble, unselfish, marvellous-minded man, who, 

 as Agassiz says, " exerted upon science a personal 

 influence which is incalculable." 



