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PREFACE.
ever has a sense for him worship him as he will,—without fear of excess in that direction! Amid the clang of our steam-machinery and money-getting, in our toiling and slaving great, but dumb and deaf, most tragic English "industrial world," Jean Paul, wherever found, will be a blessed element; like a little pot of violets in the window-sill of some huge workhouse and cyclops-smithy, reminding this man and that of many sweet forgotten things, and very well worth its room there."
Boston, March 17, 1864.
