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"Oh, no!" said he quickly, "I do not aspire to that; I believe in Faust's verse: 'Ich ziehe... meine Schuler an der Nase herum Und sehe dass wir nichts wissen konnen; and I also bilde mir nicht ein, Ich konnte was lehren. I wonder at and envy the men who teach such things with so much influence and conviction, and I am very grateful to them for initiating me into their methods and power of working properly.
Ver true, vraiment! An pe dam! zat same est no lamp in ze binnacle!" "I see it too!" cried another. "And I!" added a third. "Io tambien!" "Ich sehe!" drawled out a native of the German Confederacy; and then followed a volley of voices, each saying something to confirm the belief that a light was really gleaming over the ocean.
Bismarck wrote on this subject: "Für mich sind die Worte, 'von Gottes Gnaden, welche christliche Herrscher ihrem Namen beifügen, kein leerer Schall, sondern ich sehe darin das Bekenntniss, des Fürsten das Scepter was ihnen Gott verliehen hat, nur nach Gottes Willen auf Erden führen wollen."
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