Letters to a Lady (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Letters to a LadyKarl waelm, Baron von humboldt, elder brother of the eminent naturalist, friedrich heinrich alexan der von humboldtywas born in Potsdam, June 22, 1767, and died at Tegel, April 8, 1835. From early youth his education was carefully conducted by such teachers as the celebrated campe, the philosophers engel, kunth, FI scher, and von dohm, while at the universities of Frank fort and Gottingen he was either the pupil or intimate friend of heyne the philologist, jacobi, johannes von miiller, and other eminent men of ability. He had in deed, from boyhood, an intense desire to profit by intellec tual intercourse. My passion was, said he, to be near celebrated men, to study them with care, to realize accurately their manner of living and thinking. I asso ciated each with general ideas, I classed men and minds, and made of them, so to speak, a special science.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.