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Excerpt from Kleider Machen Leute
In June, 1848, a travelling scholarship was awarded to him by the board of education of his native canton and in October of the same year he went to Heidelberg. Ludwig Feuerbach, although not connected with the University, was lecturing there at the time, and, as God and immortality had been favorite subjects of speculation with the young man, the lectures of the famous freethinker exerted a greater in¿uence upon him than the regular lectures in history, German literature and aesthetics which he heard at the University. In October, 1849, the scholarship was renewed, and, in¿uenced by the friendship of Vamhagen von Ense and the desire to be in a city which ofiered the advantages of a good stage, he decided to spend some time in Berlin. The middle of April, 1850, found him there, but the republican Swiss found no pleasure in the people, customs or life of the aristocratic north-german metropolis. He had a letter of introduction to Fanny Lewald, but finding that she had left the city when he first called, he withdrew to his poor lodgings and for a long time did not even avail him self of the friendship of Vamhagen von Ense. His life in Berlin was a repetition of his experience in Munich. Naturally chary of words in the intercourse of every-day life, he became less communicative, even to his mother; for months, and on one occasion for almost two years, he did not write a word to her. What could he write that would not make her more con cerned even than the suspense of not hearing from him at all? Now he was engaged on a drama and now attempting to find a publisher for so much of Der grime Hez'nrz'elz as he had written; a volume of his more recent poems had appeared under the title of Neuere Ged'z'eizte.
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