Life of Alexander Von Humboldt Compiled in Commemoration of the Centenary of H
Life of Alexander Von Humboldt Compiled in Commemoration of the Centenary of H
C Carl Bruhns
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' l Humboldt was on terms of intimate friendship with the Grand Duke Karl August. The prince had been an industrious student of the various sciences of chemistry, botany, mineralogy, zoology, and meteorology, while of anatomy, according to the somewhat too flattering testimony of Walther the anatomist, 6 he had attained a deeper insight than his instructor, Professor Loder. ' 2 ' Science, ' writes Karl August to Knebel, 3 ' is so human, so true, that I feel inclined to congratulate anyone who h...as become even partially engaged in its pursuit. It has been 1 A. Von Humboldt, ' Briefe an Varnbagen/ p. 90. 2 Wagner, ' Leben Sommering's, ' vol. Ii. P. 46. 3 Knebel'a * Literariscber Nacblass/ vol. I. P. 143. 206 ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. rendered so accessible, that even indolent persons may now find inducement to become its votaries. By its means truth may be so easily attained that the love of the unreal is subdued. The teachings and demonstrations of science are so conclusive that by their light the most mysterious and incomprehensible phenomena of nature are seen to take place in the most regular order, and entirely without the influence of the supernatural ; this must at length effect a cure in those poor ignorant mortals who thirst after the mystery of extraordinary manifestations, by showing them that the extraordinary is after all so ordinary, the inexplicable so easy of explanation.
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