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I admitted Privy Councillor Miiller,* (who appre- 

 ciates you and your productions,) to a share in my 

 enjoyments. But, lawyer-like, he went off upon the 

 very first sheet, No. 63 (" Eezension des Provincial- 

 rechts von Groetze").f Would you, my dear friend, 

 send me the first part of that review for Miiller ? 



Very gratefully yours, 



A. v. HUMBOLDT. 



XXIX. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Monday, 30th May, 1837. 



My dear Friend, The Part of the "Academy's 

 Transactions " is entirely at your disposal until I can 

 send you a copy of it for yourself. The communica- 

 tion you send for our talented friend Gans is par- 

 ticularly agreeable to me. Hegel's historical studies 

 will interest me specially, because till now I have en- 

 tertained a wild prejudice against the theory that every 

 nation must be the representative of some particular 

 idea ; that everything has happened " that it might 

 come to pass " as was written by the philosopher. I 

 shall read it carefully, and shall be quite ready to 

 quit my prejudice. 



Yours, 



A. v. HUMBOLDT. 



* Cabinet Councillor of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. TR. 



f Review of the " Treatise on Provincial Law," by Von Goetze. 



