Ree June 11 Dyck May 1,1848 



Ans». Aug 9 



Your Wellborn' 



To me a^reable and usefuVletter of March 13 cane to me one 

 of these days : , and I start an ans -Ter today, which I shall continue 

 by and by in my free moments*. On the day you wrote ne, you could' 

 no no^e than I have hacb the slightest notion, of the miprhty events, 

 whichl changed the shape of things for us alraost in an instant. I 

 am in asrreement with these events; I nredicted them, and I hope for 

 the best for our German Vaterland. We leave to the Frenclt the new 

 attempt of a re public an Constitution, and remairr with the monarchic 

 constitutional, the only healthy one for old countries as those in 

 Europa.. We have too many ambitious men to assure the long life of 

 a re public: i And what is applicable in America ,with still enoughr 

 space and not enough people, does not work here« In addition, there 

 are everywhere too many earlier interests-, to leave them withoutfc 

 considerationr, and it is most important to assure the best possible 

 transaction between the past and the future. I, for my part f , desis- 

 ted pyr iffi ^>^rt from all pa^tioipation in the discussions in Frank- 

 furt and Berlin Since 50 years I float around under all kinds of 

 situations of the political life : People, younger than I, may en- 

 ter this rt career M ; but I desire to use the time, which is left me,, 

 for my favorite Studie s, and, thus, I return to Your Wellborn 1 s 

 letter and to the cacti». 



In order not to get lost in this vast field, and to jump from 

 o*"e subject to the other, it may be best, to treat each genus by 

 itselff, and. to talk first in regard to the entire fanily... There is 

 nothing to be said. against your- Organization in your tribus; and 

 nothing has been said against it but by G.Miquel, who wants to cor- 

 sider them only as venera , . and who considers all genera o^ly as 



