ess the Grand Duke of
Wuertemberg. Officious people mingled themselves in the affair: nay,
the graziers of the Alps were brought to bear upon it. The Grisons
magistrates, it appeared, had seen the book: and were mortally huffed
at being there spoken of, according to a Swabian adage, as _common
highwaymen_.[8] They complained in the _Hamburg Correspondent_; and a
sort of Jackal, at Ludwigsburg, one Walter, whose name deserves to be
thus kept in mind, volunteered to plead their cause before the Grand
Duke.

[Footnote 6: On this subject Doering gives an anecdote, which
may perhaps be worth translating. 'One of Schiller's teachers
surprised him on one occasion reciting a scene from the
_Robbers_, before some of his intimate companions. At the
words, which Franz von Moor addresses to Moser: _Ha, what!
thou knowest none greater? Think again! Death, heaven,
eternity, damnation, hovers in the sound of thy voice! Not
one greater?_--the door opened, and the master saw Schiller
stamping in desperation up and down the room. "For shame,"
said he, "for shame to get into such a passion, and curse
so!" The other scholars tittered covertly at the worthy
inspector; and Schiller called after him with a bitter smile,
"A noodle" (ein confiscirter Kerl)!']

[Footnote 7: His Latin Essay on the _Philosophy of
Physiology_ was written in 1778, and never printed. His
concluding _thesis_ was published according to custom: the
subject is arduous enough, "the connection between the animal
and spiritual nature of man,"--which Dr. Cabanis has since
treated in so offensive a fashion. Schiller's tract we have
never seen. Doering says it was long 'out of print,' till
Nasse reproduced it in his Medical Journal (Leipzig, 1820):
he is silent respecting its merits.]

[Footnote 8: The obnoxious passage has been carefully
expunged from subsequent editions. It was in the third scene
of the second act; Spiegelberg discoursing with Razmann,
observes, "An honest man you may form of windle-straws; but
to make a rascal you must have grist: besides, there is a
national genius in it, a certain rascal-climate, so to
speak." In the first edition, there was added: "_Go to the
Grisons, for instance: that is what I call the thief's
Athens._" The patriot who stood forth on this occasion for
the honour of the Grisons, to deny this weighty char