king wham God has set over him. Furthermore, be well assured that in
this world there is no other upright and well calculated policy than that
which grows out of the old precept, 'Honour God, be just and fear not.'
And reflect also that when injustice against the worthy becomes crying,
the public voice makes itself heard, and uplifts those who are cast down.

"But if, contrary to all probability, this did not happen,--if God should
impose this sublime probation upon the virtue of our friend, if the world
were to disown him and Providence were to became to that, degree his
debtor,--yet in that case there are, believe me, supreme compensations:
all the things and all the events that occur around us and that act upon
us are but machines set in motion by a Higher Hand, so as to complete our
education for a higher world, in which alone we shall take our true
place. Apply yourself, therefore, my dear child, to watch over yourself
unceasingly and always, so that you may not take great and fine isolated
actions for real virtue, and may be ready every moment to do all that
your duty may require of you. Fundamentally nothing is great, you see,
and nothing small, when things are, looked at apart from one another, and
it is only the putting of things together that produces the unity of evil
or of good.

"Moreover, God only sends the trial to the heart where He has put
strength, and the manner in which you tell me that your master has borne
the misfortune that has befallen him is a fresh proof of this great and
eternal truth. You must form yourself upon him, my dear child, and if
you are obliged to leave Hof for Bamberg you must resign yourself to it
courageously. Man has three educations: that which he receives from his
parents, that which circumstances impose upon him, and lastly that which
he gives himself; if that misfortune should occur, pray to God that you
may yourself worthily complete that last education, the most important of