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ercise great influence on people's minds and views a fact obvious 

 to every one. Our Court, every one must think, either has not the 

 principles it has hitherto appeared to have, or it is too weak to 

 maintain them, and is forced to feign others. In both cases bad !" 



XXIII. 



HUMBOLDT TO YATINHAGEN. 



Berlin, 31st May, 1836. 



The following refers to an article, attributed to Major von Eado- 

 witz, in the " Allgemeine Zeitung," in which Baron Raumer's 

 work (" Letters on England") had been unfavourably reviewed. 



The writer of these letters* must have had little to 

 fear from any of Frailty's trumped-up charges. In his 

 (Kadowitz's) general opinion ahout the shallowness 

 and tameness of this " man of vast historical research/' 

 I quite agree. Besides, von Eaumer reads as if one 

 were smarting under the corporal's rattan, and that is 

 a thing I cannot stand, and will not forgive. 



XXIV. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



t, 24 April, 1837. 

 It is a great consolation that in this city, intel- 

 lectually deserted (how brilliant it was in Eahel's 

 palmy days !), both brothers are still living in the 

 memory of him in whom alone sound sense, delicate 

 moral feeling, and elegance of diction have survived. 



* Eaumer, in these letters, had discussed, in rather unnecessary detail, 

 the relative morality of the cooks and maid-servants in London and Berlin. 

 TR. 



