see the poor devil get it. It was the first time in the principality
of Haslau that the tears of a school-master and teacher-of-the-church
had been metamorphosed, not like those of the Heliades into light
amber, which incased an insect, but like those of the goddess Freya,
into gold. Glanz congratulated Flachs, and gayly drew his attention to
the fact that perhaps he, Glanz, had helped to move him. The rest drew
aside, by their separation accentuating their position on the dry road
from that of Flachs on the wet; all, however, remained intent upon the
rest of the will.

Then the reading of it was continued.




_WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT_

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SCHILLER AND THE PROCESS OF HIS INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT

From the _Introduction to the Correspondence of Schiller and
W. von Humboldt_ (1830)

TRANSLATED BY FRANCES H. KING

Schiller's poetic genius showed itself in his very first productions.
In spite of all their defects in form, in spite of many things which
to the mature artist seemed absolutely crude, _The Robbers_ and
_Fiesko_ gave evidence of remarkable inherent power. His genius