Perhaps that is true, and it is much to say. This is not greatness in
the old sense of the word, and we may have entered upon an age which
has outgrown the heroic, and those representatives of heroism around
whom all others seemed grouped as minor figures.

Opposed to the Monarchic, the Aristocratic, and the Monotheistic, stand
the Republican, the Democratic, and the Pantheistic: they are only
three different names for three unfoldings of the same principle.

[Roland to the Professorin.]

My first lines from camp shall be to you, dear Frau Professorin. I
thank you for the motto which you once gave me; I feel as if I were not
the same person to whom all that happened. I promise you, and this is a
new oath of allegiance, to be true to your motto.

Ah, why do you not know Lilian? she deserves that you should know her.

I have told her a great deal about you; she thinks she should stand in
awe of any one so wise and learned, but I tell her she need not.

And oh, Dr. Fritz is such a noble man. He told me that he was a pupil
of your husband, and it must make you happy that your husband's spirit
lives on in such a man, here in the New World.

I must try not to think too much of you and of the past: I ought now to
give my thoughts only to what we have before us; and I am tired out. I
have had a very fatiguing drill.

Eric is held in great respect here. All is still; in camp it is said
that to-morrow we shall come under fire for the first time.

Morning.

The battle is beginning; I hope to do my duty.

Evening.

I have been promoted on the field.

[Eric to Weidmann.]

In Camp.

We have fought a battle; we have been defeated. Roland has
distinguished himself, and been promoted. I have to use all my
influence to restrain his daring.

The coolness and deliberation of your grand-nephew Hermann are a great
help to me.

The hardest thing in this war is, that thousands must necessarily be
sacrificed in order to teach the officers the art of war. There is a
deficiency of experienced and tried leaders; and it is no small thing
that the army, wholly without any confidence in the military skill of
its generals, maintains itself so bravely. They must learn how to fight
by fighting; and in this particular the So