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intellectual epicurean, he was enjoying Oriental studies instead of
following in the footsteps of his father, his brothers, and most of his
relatives at home.

My ideas of the heroes of Polish liberty had been formed from Heinrich
Heine's Noble Pole, and I met my companion with a certain feeling of
distrust. Far from pressing upon me the thoughts which moved him so
deeply, it was long ere he permitted the first glimpse into his soul. But
when the ice was once broken, the flood of emotion poured forth with
elementary power, and his sincerity was sealed by his blood. He fell
armed on the soil of his home at the time when I was most gratefully
rejoicing in the signs of returning health--the year 1863. I was his only
friend in Berlin, but I was warmly attached to him, and shall remember
him to my life's end.

The last winter of imprisonment also saw me industriously at work. I had
already, with Mieczyslaw, devoted myself eagerly to the history of the
ancient East, and Lepsius especially approved these studies. The list of
the kings which I compiled at that time, from the most remote sources to
the Sassanida, won the commendation of A. von Gutschmid, the most able
investigator in this department. These researches led me also to Persia
and the other Asiatic countries. Egypt, of course, remained the principal
province of my work. The study of the kings from the twenty-sixth
dynasty--that is, the one with which the independence of the Pharaohs
ended and the rule of the Persians under Cambyses began in the valley of
the Nile--occupied me a long time. I used the material thus acquired
afterward for my habilitation essay, but the impulse natural to me of
imparting my intellectual gains to others had induced me to utilize it in
a special way. The material I had collected appeared in my judgment
exactly suited for a history of the time that Egypt fell into the power
of Persia. Jacob Burckhardt's Constantine the Great was to serve for my
model. I intended to lay most stress upon the state of civilization, the
intellectual and religious life, art, and science in Egypt, Greece,
Persia, Phoenicia, etc., and after most carefully planning the
arrangement I began to write with the utmost zeal.

[I still have the unfinished manuscript; but the farther I advanced
the stronger became the conviction, now refuted by Eduard Meyer,
that it would not yet be possible to write a final history of that
period which would stand the tes