description may be, it will never approach the touching and
sorrowful impression which the sight of it produced."

Friedrich found that it would never do to trust to the mere aid of
Time in such circumstances: at the end of the Thirty-Years War,
"Time" had, owing to absolute want of money, been the one recipe of
the Great Elector in a similar case; and Time was then found to
mean "about a hundred Years." Friedrich found that he must at once
step in with active remedies, and on all hands strive to make the
impossible possible. Luckily he had in readiness, as usual, the
funds for an Eighth Campaign, had such been needed. Out of these
moneys he proceeded to rebuild the Towns and Villages; "from the
Corn-Stores (GRANARIES D'ABONDANCE," Government establishments
gathered from plentiful harvests against scarce, according to old
rule) "were taken the supplies for food of the people and sowing of
the ground: the horses intended for the artillery, baggage and
commissariat," 60,000 horses we have heard, "were distributed among
those who had none, to be employed in tillage of the land.
Silesia was discharged from all taxes for six months; Pommern and
the Neumark for two years. A sum of about Three Million sterling
[in THALERS 20,389,000] was given for relief of the Provinces, and
as acquittance of the impositions the Enemy had wrung from them.

"Great as was this expense, it was necessary and indispensable.
The condition of these Provinces after the Peace of Hubertsburg
recalled what we know of them when the Peace of Munster closed the
famous Thirty-Years War. On that occasion the State failed of help
from want of means; which put it, out, of the Great Elector's power
to assist his people: and what happened? That a whole century
elapsed before his Successors could restore the Towns and