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★ 157 ★ one's way of life. So here, by continuously interweaving the royal couple in domestic and public life, true patriotism could arise.

25. The by Schadow should be sought out for viewing by good society in Berlin. A niche for moral grace established and exhibited in assembly halls. This niche could be an educational establishment for the world of young women and the cultivated classes, and in that way the royal service would then be what worship service, in a similar way, should be, a true honor and reward for the most excellent of her sex.

26. Once, one had to flee from the court with one's wife and children, as from a place of contagion. Now, one will be able to distance oneself from general moral corruption at a court, as on a blessed isle. Once, a careful young man had to go to the outlying provinces, or at least go to families far removed from city and court, to find an excellent wife; in the future, as it should be according to the original idea, one will go to the court as the meeting place of the best and most beautiful to receive a wife from the hand of the king.

27. This king is the first king of Prussia. He puts on the crown every day, and his acknowledgement stands in no need of negotiations.

28. The king and the queen protect the monarchy with more than 200,000 men.

29. Nothing is more uplifting than speaking of our wishes when they are already being fulfilled.

30. No state is has been managed more like a factory than Prussia since the death of Friedrich William I.