country for whose happiness I would undergo the greatest sufferings, and
even death. Take strength for this crisis. If by chance it should reach
our good province, lift your eyes to the Almighty, then carry them back
to beautiful rich nature. The goodness of God which preserved and
protected so many men during the disastrous Thirty Years' War can do and
will do now what it could and did then. As for me, I believe and hope."

Leipzig came to justify Sand's presentiments; then the year 1814 arrived,
and he thought Germany free.

On the 10th of December in the same year he left Richembourg with this
certificate from his master:--

"Karl Sand belongs to the small number of those elect young men who are
distinguished at once by the gifts of the mind and the faculties of the
soul; in application and work he surpasses all his fellow-students, and
this fact explains his rapid progress in all the philosophical and
philological sciences; in mathematics only there are still some further
studies which he might pursue. The most affectionate wishes of his
teacher follow him on his departure.

"J. A. KEYN, "Rector, and master of the first class. "Richembourg, Sept.
15, 1814"

But it was really the parents of Sand, and in particular his mother, who
had prepared the fertile soil in which his teachers had sowed the seeds
of learning; Sand knew this well, for at the moment of setting out for
the university of Tubingen, where he was about to complete the
theological studies necessary for becoming a pastor, as he desired to do,
he wrote to them:--