Beel Jan. 1? Leonhard i Smichpow in. Bohenia 



Dec. 31. 18?3 



Dear Georg ! Your rauch enjoyed letter of Sept. 2h I reeeived orr 

 October 17,almost 1^ days after Coming back fron the World % h 

 Fair.where besides others were fine specinens of Webwltschia 

 ml rabi Iis » of course dried up.*) As to color of the species, it 

 is at the most one of the 50 - 80 types of raaximum lazyness, which 

 manklnd. understood as a similar number of types,and just as raany 

 more, which it did not widerstand, one type approaching the other 

 in a ^rreater degree, the other in a lesser. The mixture of such 

 types 1 eomposites depends on individuality. *) In one of the 

 north-american cases of butterflies was found a bat. 



As to the development of humani ty, which we experience, this is 

 really stränge Against the reactionary inclined, inf allible pope pro- 

 gress andfreedora of the spirit is being protected by the equally 

 reactionary. infallible and doematis prussian emperor Wilhelm. ..This 

 attitude is obviously in the interest of the latter, and there is no 

 other representative of the unstoppable pro*rress in existence.. I am 

 curious, what position the present crownprince will take, when the 

 old one dies. As to the French, they are not as low at all, as the 

 German chauvinists declare.but they take the proper advantage frour 

 their mishap, their defeat. It is the old vanity and desire.thin- 

 king of revenge and giving themselves more into the hands of the 

 priests (the German Pfaffe is somewhat dera^atory for the clergy,E.D.) 

 because they hoped to get their republic through them. They are to 

 be regretted t that such a dishonourable, happy majority of shop - 

 keepers, who do not become the aeeepted voice of the people.and that 

 thus Mac Ifahon has the power over them t and they become a play-ball 

 between the followers of Orleans and Napoleon.. 



Rorae plays va banque ; he who thinks to be the winner, deeeives 

 himself . The public opinion agrees only on this, that the time of 



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