172 Hints on* Landscape Gardening 



lies are not so orthodox as Protestants, and that 

 the Pope is far too liberal for our too Puritanical 

 ones. Better that I should take my comparisons 

 from our daily life here, where in my opinion 

 the contrast is equally remarkable. For do not 

 the theater and the church here clasp hands in 

 the most amicable manner, do not Opera dancers 

 every night do their honorable best to initiate 

 Catholics and Protestants, pious and impious, 

 into the mystery of the natural lines of the hu- 

 man body ? Gauze and stockings do not prevent 

 the study of the human form, but nobody ob- 

 jects. 



More considerable and important than this ob- 

 stacle seems to me the desire that Schinkel's great 

 v^orks may be completed w^hile their creator /j- still 

 alive to direct their completion, for how quickly, 

 how suddenly, the flame of life is extinguished, 

 even in the most robust, often unforeseen by all ! 

 Schinkel, too, is not immortal, but his works will 

 be if only their free and complete development 

 is permitted, and they be not strangled or silenced 

 in their very birth. 



We had stopped at the feudal castle in my 

 park. Plate XXIX shows it and its surroundings. 



During the excavations in this neighborhood, 

 only a year ago, a well-preserved skeleton was 

 found in an overgrown thicket, only three feet 

 underground, apparently that of a fine young 

 man ; for it had excellent proportions, a phren- 

 ologically well-formed skull, and all the teeth 

 without a single gap. Whatever is found in the 



