wisdom and valor, which are wealth in all kinds; California mere
zero to them, zero, or even a frightful MINUS quantity!
Friedrich's procedures in this matter I believe to be little less
didactic than those other, which are so celebrated in War: but no
Dryasdust, not even a Dryasdust of the Dismal Science, has gone
into them, rendered men familiar with them in their details and
results. His Silesian Land-Bank (joint-stock Moneys, lent on
security of Land) was of itself, had I room to explain it, an
immense furtherance. [Preuss, iii. 75; OEuvres de
Frederic, vi. 84.] Friedrich, many tell us, was as
great in Peace as in War: and truly, in the economic and material
provinces, my own impression, gathered painfully in darkness, and
contradiction of the Dismal-Science Doctors, is much to that
effect. A first-rate Husbandman (as his Father had been); who not
only defended his Nation, but made it rich beyond what seemed
possible; and diligently sowed annuals into it, and perennials
which flourish aloft at this day.

Mirabeau's Monarchie Prussienne, in 8 thick
Volumes 8vo,--composed, or hastily cobbled together, some Twenty
years after this period,--contains the best tabular view one
anywhere gets of Friedrich's economics, military and other
practical methods and resources:--solid exact Tables these are, and
intelligent intelligible descriptions, done by Mauvillon FILS, the
same punctual Major Mauvillon who used to attend us in Duke
Ferdinand's War;--and so far as Mirabeau is concerned, the Work
consists farther of a certain small Essay done in big type, shoved
into the belly of each Volume, and eloquently recommending, with
respectful censures and regrets over Friedrich, the Gospel of Free
Trade, dear to Papa Mirabeau. The Son is himself a convert; far