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bursting into enthusiasms like these, 

 "The real master of all is Schelling' 7 5 

 i ' Schelling is again lecturing gloriously ? ? ; 

 " One hour with Schelling is worth more 

 than everything one can hear at Heidel- 

 berg all put together. . . . His first lect- 

 ure on the value of philosophy, and the 

 need of it in natural science, in law, art, 

 religion, and politics, ought to have 

 been heard by all the world ; and, in- 

 deed, men of all sorts were present, as 

 well as the students, even some from the 

 Minister's Privy Council. The king 

 was expected, but did not come. I 

 have never heard a more beautiful and 

 a more artistic discourse than this open- 

 ing lecture. "When he had finished, 

 some one in the audience cried, 'Er 

 lebe hoch 7 ; and thereupon there were 

 three such ringing cheers that the whole 

 house shook." 



Both Braun and Agassiz were under 

 strong home influences. The " sweet- 

 ness of the old Swiss manse " lingered 



