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to the more honourable way, and to justify one's self 

 before one's own nation. A wild man of the woods, 

 whom they fancy they have tamed at Court, stands 

 in need of such justification. 



I hand over to you, my dear friend, as your 

 own, " Madame de Quitzow," whom I was only able 

 to ask back to-day from the Queen. General Thile, 

 the old Minister, was firmly of opinion that the Guizots 

 from the neighbourhood of Montpellier were, in fact, 

 disguised, expatriated, Frenchified relics of the Lang- 

 Kloder Quitzows, turned Protestant with their patro- 

 nymic softened down accordingly. And your poor 

 excellent Dora, who is so much pitied by all your 

 friends for her sufferings which you so delicately 

 alleviate : remember me to her very kindly. 



Yours faithfully, 



A. HUMBOLDT. 



Night. 



The Grand Duke, whom you have escaped, has 

 charged me to greet you on his part. He has 

 wonderful theories, too, which he has most likely 

 picked up somewhere or other, (Boeotia, you will 

 remember, was near the Athens of olden times,) and 

 misunderstood them. According to him there are two 

 classes of sculptors ; the inferior, to which Rauch 

 inclines, who works from without to within, while the 

 superior (Rietschel) works from within to without. 

 But what a scandal, Philarete Chasles* in the 

 " Journal des D^bats!" I wrote to Paris: " vul- 

 gaire dans les id^es comme dans les formes du Ian- 

 gage, indigne d'un litterateur du college de France." 



* The pun contained in the original is untranslatable. Der Schall 

 Philarete, Philarete of the empty sound. TR. 



