reason on their side and in any attack from us always placed it to the fore � since now it would only be a to them in their wider operations say good by to it and will not rest until they make it all dark around them until they take away from the people all means of and have condemned the free use of natural judgment as the first of all sins formerly when they themselves still depended upon the well being and comfortable manner of life of our priests was an to them now that they fare with full sails the moderate of our temples which they have made themselves masters of are much too small to satisfy the needs of their pride and their vanity already now their at rome � through the liberality of rich and foolish whose dreamy they know very well how to use through the most hunting and a thousand by martin other tricks of this kind � put themselves in a position to the first persons in the state in pomp expenditure and but all these springs although grown to streams through ever new will not satisfy these ones they will find a thousand ways never heard of before to upon the of men and even the sins of the world will they through their magic art to golden fountains and to make them yield the more they will think up a monstrous multitude of new sins of which the and the had never a suspicion wherefore do i say all this what does it matter to us what these people do or don t do and how well or ill they shall administer their new government over the sick souls of men and through lust and slavery even the are themselves deceived they too know not what they do but we who see clear in all this � it us to treat them with forbearance as sick and insane and in the future to show them as much kindness as their own will give us opportunity poor whom do they harm but themselves when they of their own free will rob themselves of the beneficent influence whereby has become the school of wisdom and of art and rome the law bearer and of the earth through which influence both cities reach a grade of culture to which not even the better descendants of these who now have it in mind to divide among themselves the lands and riches of these and will ever be able to raise themselves again for what shall be the fate of men from whom the and graces philosophy and all the beauty breeding arts of life and of a finer enjoyment of life together with the gods their and have withdrawn themselves i foresee at a glance all the evil that will come in in the place of the good all the the the monstrous and the that these of beauty will pile up on the ashes and fragments of the works of genius � and i at the sight away with it for so sure as i am it shall not be so forever although centuries shall pass by before mankind reaches the deepest depths of its and still more centuries before with our help it shall again rear itself above the mire the time shall come when they shall seek us again call upon us for aid once more and confess that without us they by her martin have no power the time shall come when with labor they shall once more draw out of the dirt or dig up from its deep bed of and rubbish every shattered or of the works which under our influence sprang from the soul and the hands of our of art and shall weary themselves in vain by an affected enthusiasm to imitate those wonders of true inspiration and the very of divine power � surely shall it come that time i see it as if it stood before me in the full splendor of the present again shall they set up our images gaze upon them astonished with a thrill of feeling and of admiration take them as models for their which in those hands had become ugly and � oh what a triumph their shall be proud to build for us under another name the most splendid temple with a great full of in his � here s to the future to my daughter here s to the time when you shall see all europe changed into a new filled with and and shall hear the voices of philosophy from the midst of the german forest sound forth perchance and clearer than from the halls ot and shaking her head a little � i am glad father to see you in such good courage at this present juncture but you must pardon me if i believe as little in a new as i do in a new to � that peter with the double key who is to be my successor � i can t get him out of my head how is it with this key is it actual or a natural or a magic key where did he get it and what will he open with it � all that i can tell you about it is that with this key he for whom he will the gates of heaven or of hell � he may hell for whom he will for all me but heaven � that s another story � in fact they have arranged to people heaven with such a great multitude of gods of their own that there won t be any room left for us old ones � let me look out for that our temples and landed properties on earth they could very easily get away from us but we have been established in too long to by martin be for the rest as a proof of our 