thing, however,
is certain, that the humiliation inflicted on Prussia by that protocol was
never forgotten by one brave soldier, who, though not allowed at that time
to draw his royal sword, has ever since been working at the reform of
Prussia's army, till on the field of Sadowa the disgrace of the London
protocol and the disgrace of Olmuetz were wiped out together, and German
questions can no longer be settled by the Great Powers of Europe, "with or
without the consent of Prussia."

Bunsen remained in England two years longer, full of literary work,
delighted by the success of Prince Albert's Great Exhibition, entering
heartily into all that interested and agitated English society, but
nevertheless carrying in his breast a heavy heart. Prussia and Germany
were not what he wished them to be. At last the complications that led to
the Crimean War held out to his mind a last prospect of rescuing Prussia
from her Russian thralldom. If Prussia could have been brought over to
join England and France, the unity of Northern Germany might have been her
reward, as the unity of Italy was the reward of Cavour's alliance with the
Western Powers. Bunsen used all his influence to bring this about, but he
used it in vain, and in April, 1854, he succumbed, and his resignation was
accepted.

Now, at last, Bunsen was free. He writes to a son:--

"You know how I struggled, almost desperately, to retire from
public employment in 1850. Now the cord is broken, and the bird is
free. The Lord be praised!"

But sixty-two years of his life were gone. The foundations of literary
work which he had laid as a young man were difficult to recover; and if
anything was to be finished, it had to be finished in haste. Bunsen
retired to Heidelberg, hoping there to realize the ideal of his life, and
realizing it, too, in a certain degree,--_i.e._ as long as he was able to
forget his sixty-two years, his shaken health, and his blasted hopes. His
new edition of "Hippolytus," under the title of "Christianity and
Mankind," had been finished in seven volumes before he left England. At
Heidelberg his principal work was the new translation of the Bible, and
his "Life of Christ," an enormous undertaking, enough to fill a man's
life, yet with Bunsen by no means the only work to which he devoted his
remaining powers. Egyptian studies continued to interest him while
superintending the English translation of his "Egypt." His anger at the
machinations