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With him Anarchy has now become Peace ... the once perturbed spirit is serene and rich in good fruits.... Neither, which is most important of all, has this Peace been attained by a surrender to Necessity, or any compact with Delusion a seeming blessing, such as years and dispiritment will of themselves bring to most men, and which is indeed no blessing, since ever-continued battle is better than captivity.
There are few men who can put forth all their muscle in a losing race, and it is characteristic of Lessing that what he wrote under the dispiritment of failure should be the most lively and vigorous. Circumstances might be against him, but he was incapable of believing that a cause could be lost which had once enlisted his conviction.
Neither, which is most important of all, has this Peace been attained by a surrender to Necessity, or any compact with Delusion; a seeming blessing, such as years and dispiritment will of themselves bring to most men, and which is indeed no blessing, since even continued battle is better than destruction or captivity; and peace of this sort is like that of Galgacus's Romans, who 'called it peace when they had made a desert. Here the ardent high-aspiring youth has grown into the calmest man, yet with increase and not loss of ardour, and with aspirations higher as well as clearer.
Prince Karl, fringed with Tolpatchery in this manner, but with much desertion, much dispiritment, in his main body, the HOOPS upon him all loose, so to speak, staggers zigzag back towards Budweis, and the Lobkowitz Party there; intending nothing more upon the Prussians; capable now, think some NON-Prussians, of being well swept out of Budweis, and over the horizon altogether.
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