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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 20: (search)
eralization remarkable at any age. His views of what is connected with our spiritual nature are, no doubt, unsound, and his radicalism is always offensive. I have seldom read a book with which I have so often been angry, and yet I have learnt, I think, a great deal from it, and had my mind waked up by it upon many matters, for it has suggested to me a great variety of points for inquiry, of which I might otherwise never have thought. . . . . Yours very faithfully, Geo. Ticknor. In May, 1858, Mr. Ticknor received the following letter from Baron Humboldt, of which, according to the request in the postscript, he immediately sent a translation to one of the Boston daily newspapers, with an appropriate preface. This does not seem to preclude the insertion of the original here, which will be followed by Mr. Ticknor's answer, or so much of it as has been found. mon Cher et excellent Ami,—Des rapports d'amitie qui remontent si haut dans ma famille, l'affection que mon frere