Friedrich Engels 
Telegramm an die „New Yorker Volkszeitung"' 

New Yorker Volkszeitung. 
Nr. 66, 17. März 1883 
London, 16. März. Der Tod Karl Marx' trat um 3 Uhr Nachmittag am Mitt- 
woch den 14. d. M. in Argenteuil, Frankreich, ein. Seit mehreren Wochen 
litt Marx an Bronchitis, dazu gesellte sich ein Lungenabsceß und schließlich 
machte innerliche Verblutung seinem Leben ein Ende. Sein Tod war ein 
schmerzloser und leichter. 

Friedrich Engels. 

Friedrich Engels 
Draft for the Speech over the Grave of Karl Marx 

I Scarcely 15 months ago most of us assembled round this grave, then about 
to become the last resting place of a grand and noble hearted woman. Today 
we have it reopened, to receive what remains of her husband. 

Karl Marx was one of those pre-eminent men of whom a century produces 
not many. Charles Darwin discovered the law of development of organic 
nature upon our planet. Marx is the discoverer of the fundamental law 
according to which human history moves and develops itself, a law so simple 
and self-evident that its simple enunciation is almost sufficient to secure 
assent. Not enough with that, Marx has also discovered the law which has 
created our actual state of society with its great class-division of Capitalists