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break out against you in the only conversation I ever 

 had with a man who brought me a letter from your 

 own hand ? Who will attribute to me such indiscreet 

 Orinoco manners? 



Marheineke* has also been campaigning in the criti- 

 cal journals, more against Savignyf than against 

 Stahl. j There is much sharpness in the air, and the 

 Blacks give no quarter. The end of the philippic is 

 very eloquent, arriving at the climax of the transition 

 from the Eationalists through St. Hegel to Galileo. 

 Unfortunately the twelve preceding pages are destitute 

 of all colour, and indifferent in style. Gorres and 

 Schelling can colour better. The only thing that 

 interests me in all this is the dramatic part, and the 

 talent which is or is not displayed. CaBsareopapy, 

 territorial system, nay, the " authority of a decided 

 positive system of dogmas and of a marked physi- 

 ognomy " which M. Marheineke, p. 41, wishes to see 

 introduced, are to me horrors or carnival pleasantries. 

 Both parties are only different sorts of compression 

 engines, and a " philosophically " established Christian 

 dogmatism of " marked physiognomy" is, of all corsets, 

 to me the most oppressive. 



Eaumer (Karl) has published " Crusades " cru- 



* Philip Conrad Marheineke, an eminent German divine ; in philosophy a 

 follower of Hegel ; died 1846. TR. 



f Friedrich Carl von Savigny, author of the " History of Eoman Law in 

 the Middle Ages," esteemed leader of the historical school in jurisprudence ; 

 an ultra-Conservative in politics and religion. TR. 



J Friedrich Julius Stahl, a Professor in the University of Berlin, and one 

 of the editors of the New Prussian Gazette (" Kreuzzeitung"). He was born 

 and bred an Israelite in Bavaria, and started in early life as a republican and 

 a demagogue. At the present time the learned Professor is conspicuous as an 

 ultra- Prussian, an ultra-Lutheran, and ultra- Absolutist. TR. 



Joseph Gorres, a profound scholar, in his youth an ardent Republican, 

 in his old age an ultra- Conservative and fanatical Catholic. TR. 



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