HELMHOLTZ IN KONIGSBERG 



author of their great success, and they finally decide 

 to award the garland to him. " Well," answers the 

 smith, " I consent ; you are many, and among you 

 are clever people. I am but a single man. You 

 assert that I singly have been of service to many of 

 you, and that many places teem with sculptors who 

 have decked the temples with divine statues, which, 

 without the tools that I have given you, would have 

 been very imperfectly fashioned. I must believe you, 

 as I have never chiselled marble, and I accept thank- 

 fully what you award to me, but I myself would have 

 given my vote to Praxiteles or Paionios." ' 



