ent over his own being,
especially in consideration of what he was and what he had become. But
every man may thus be regarded as a charade of many syllables, of which
he himself can spell only a few, while others easily decipher the whole
word.

Nor do we find in him any pronounced principles. His unerring feeling
and cultured mind served him as a guide in morals as well as in
aesthetics. His ideal was a kind of natural religion, in which God
appears as the ultimate source of the beautiful and hardly as a being
having any other relation to man. His conduct was most beautiful in all
cases involving duty and gratitude.

His provision for himself was moderate, and not the same at all times.
He always labored most diligently to secure a competence for his old
age. His means are noble; in his efforts to attain every end he shows
himself honest, straightforward, even defiant, and at the same time
clever and persevering. He never works after a fixed plan, but always
instinctively and passionately. His pleasure in every discovery is
intense, for which reason errors are unavoidable, which, however, in his
rapid progress are corrected as quickly as he sees them. Here also he
always maintains an antique principle; the certainty of the point of
departure, the uncertainty of the aim to be reached, as well as the
incomplete and imperfect character of the treatment as soon as it
becomes extensive.

SOCIETY

Little prepared by his early mode of life, Winckelmann did not at first
feel at ease in company, but a feeling of dignity soon took the place of
education and custom, and he learned very rapidly to conduct himself in
accordance with his surroundings. The gratification felt in association
with distinguished, wealthy and celebrated people and the pleasure of
being esteemed by them everywhere appears. As regards facility of
intercourse, he could not have found himself in a better place than
Rome.

He himself observes, that however ceremonious the Roman grandees,
especially the clerical, appeared in public, at home they were pleasant
and intimate with the members of their household; but he did not observe
that this intimacy concealed the oriental relation of lord and servant.
All southern nations would find it intolerably tiresome to have to
maintain the constant mutual tension in association with their
dependents which the northerners are accustomed to.

Travelers have observed that the slaves in Turkey behave toward their
ma