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am pestered by this body with its pamphlets and tracts. 

 The last number of the " Herald of Peace," however, is 

 so remarkable on account of the political agitation of 

 the sanctimonious peace-Quakers, that it may perhaps 

 afford to you, my dear friend, some moments' amuse- 

 ment to read the testimonies yourself. Destroy the 

 paper ! 



.This missive is also to be a sign of life that is to 

 say, of the fondest, truest friendship for you in these 

 dark times of weakness and folly. From the new 

 " Stahl-Banke " Council of State, I have freed my- 

 self, for reasons with which old age has nothing to do. 

 I have gone out. 



I inclose a very crabbed letter of poor Bunsen, which 

 you will keep very secret, and kindly send back to me 

 by-and-by to my Berlin residence. First Heidelberg 

 and Bonn always between the exciting reminiscences 

 of two Archbishops. With the dangerous propensity of 

 the excellent man for theological controversy, and his 

 newly invented Apostolical Church under the firm of 

 Hippolytus,* a stay in England, somewhere in the 

 country, between London and Oxford (on account of 

 the libraries), would do him more good than Bonn. 

 The Established Church, with all its intolerance, is 

 less inconvenient in a free country, than a Ministerial 

 Synod is in Prussia. I am, besides, very much afraid 

 for the credit of Bunsen's scientific fame of the 

 threatening shoal of books, teeming with hypotheses 

 on aboriginal nations, Egyptian, Indian, and disin- 

 terred Assyrian Semites ; as also on the locality of 



* Bunsen's work, " Hippolytus and his Age." TR. 



