The Socialism of to-day

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Identifikator:: 835096955

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-28834

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Laveleye, Émile de

Title:: The Socialism of to-day

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Field & Tuer

Year of publication:: 1884

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XLIV, 331 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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44 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. where at that time all the new ideas took their rise, in 1845 he visited Paris. He was cordially received by Heine, who was greatly drawn to him from the similarity of their origin, their thoughts, and the turn of their minds. Nevertheless the poet, whose sharp penetration went to the bottom of all characters, perfectly judged his brilliant countryman in a letter of introduction to Varnhagen von Ense : “ My friend, Herr Lassalle, who is the bearer of this letter, is a young man of the most remarkable intellettual gifts. He joins a strength of will and a dexterity of action which are fairly astonishing, to the profoundest learn ing, the widest knowledge, and the quickest penetration I have ever met with. He is a true child of thq new era, knowing nothing of that modesty and self-abnegation which we of the old school affect with more or less hypocrisy. He belongs to a new generation who desire to enjoy and to rule." Heine compares Varnhagen and himself to grave-diggers charged with the burial of the past, and to poor hens who, having hatched duck’s eggs, are amazed to see their ducklings take to the water with such joy. At Berlin,‘*where Lassalle wished to establish himself as a privat docent^ he became acquainted with all the literary and scientific world, which received him most cordially. Humboldt in particular took him into especial friendship, calling him the “Youthful Prodigy” (^Das Wunderkind). He recom mended him to his colleagues of the Institute of France, when Lassalle made his second journey to Paris, Meantime, Lassalle continued his book on Heraclitus, which, however, did not appear until nine years later. About this time, towards the end of 1845, he met at Berlin a person who exercised a decided influence over his fate. The Countess Sophie von Hatzfeld, n'ee Princess von Hatzfeld, was engaged in a lawsuit with her husband. After some years passed quietly in their hereditary chateau on the banks of the Sieg, or in their house in Dusseldorf, the incompatibility of their tempers had brought about a separation between them, and the countess was suing for a pension proportional to her rank and fortune. She was extremely quick-witted and elo-

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