Karl, Grand Duke of Frankfurt, Royal Highness: In a Lecture at the Museum in Frankfurt

flies, whom they do not even deem worthy of a contemptuous side-glance. But they expose themselves to greater contempt without noticing it, because they are too short-sighted to stand among reasonable people, and are only kept harmless by their cringing sycophants and flatterers; but that only lasts for a while, then they are also despised, or fall away themselves, and step back. To draw a greater and more emphatic parallel would be an insult to such a GREAT, SO SUBLIME A PRINCE. This brief characterization may suffice and say everything that could be said.

May I be permitted to draft only a few faint traits from the meritorious life of THIS LEARNED, THIS MOST INSIGHTFUL PRINCE, PROMOTER OF SCHOLARSHIP AND OF SCHOLARS, from whom the Church, the State, and the learned world have had to expect much, very much, and are now justified in expecting. But oh, that I might possess the great spirit of Plutarch to be able to portray this MOST LOVABLE PRINCE as he portrayed the lives of those great men and heroes