ENGELS TO FRANZ MEHRING |” 

London, 11 April 1893 
Dear Mr Mehring, 
Naturally I have not the slightest objection to your printing the passage 
from my letter of 28 September you copied out and sent me. All I would ask 
is that you make one change in the final sentence: 

‘while the Lavergne-Peguilhenian generalisation would be reduced to its true 
content, namely that feudal society engenders a feudal world order’. '”* 

The original wording is really too slipshod. 

I look forward to seeing the Lessing-Legende published on its own. That 
kind of thing is greatly impaired if brought out piecemeal. It was very 
meritorious of you to work your way through the tangled mass of Prussian 
history and to establish the correct correlations therein. The Prussia of today 
makes this absolutely essential, however disagreeable the work as such may 
be. There are various points, especially in this or that passage where you 
retrace the links with the preceding period, on which I do not entirely see eye 
to eye with you, but that does not prevent me from saying that yours is by far 
the best work that exists on this period of German history. 

Yours very truly, F. 

Engels