{London,] 18 January 1856 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Frederic, 

Today I emptied the 6th and last medicine-sorriz. Pretty well 
again on the whole, save for persistent and highly perfidious 
piles. 

I haven’t touched on Cobden’s pamphlet? in my articies, because I 
have devoted many tedious columns exclusively to the history of the 
Danusian provinces and Sweden.’ I should be very glad if you would 
take on Cobden. 

I shall add a short piece to your article* as soon as I have seen 
the 2nd edition of The Times. Its announcement yesterday as TO THE 
‘UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE’ * was a sheer Stock Exchange swindle which 
brought it in a great deal of money. As early as 1772, at the Congress 
of Focsani,’ Catherine II had already proposed to the Turks ‘THe 
INDEPENDENCE OF THE PRINCIPALITIES UNDER THE COMMON PROTECTION OF THE PRINCIPAL 
POWERS oF EUROPE’. At the Library” I discovered a work of Herrmann’s 
which appeared in Germany in 1841.‘ He got hold of a manuscript of 
Field Marshal Miinnich’s on the Crimean campaign under Anna in 
one of the German libraries and published it with a foreword. I shall 
make excerpts from it for you if you are interested. 

You may, perhaps, have seen in the Augsburger the high praise 
Fallmerayer accords to Muralt for his history of Byzantium from 
the 6th to the 16th century, which won a Petersburg Academy 
prize.* 

a F, Engels, ‘The European War’. - > of the British Museum -¢ E. Herrmann, 
Beiträge zur Geschichte des russischen Reiches, Leipzig, 1843 (wrong date in the 
original). - ¢ E. de Muralt, Essai de chronographie Byzantine pour servir a Uexamen des 
annales du Bas-Empire et particuli¢rement des chronographes slavons de 395 4 1057. 
Fallmerayer’s review of this book was published in the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung, 
Nos. 11 and 12 (supplement), 11 and 12 January 1856. 

4. 1, Marx to Engels. 18 January 1856 

Have seen Bruno* again on various occasions. Romanticism 
increasingly turns out to be a ‘prerequisite’ for the critical 
criticism. In economics expresses enthusiasm for the Physiocrats, 
whom he misconstrues, and believes in the specifically beneficial 
effects of landed property. Moreover he rates very high | the 
economic fantasies of Adam Miller, the German romantic.’ In 
military science his summus princeps” is the ‘genius’ Bilow. I told 
him that these latest disclosures of his had fully enlightened me 
regarding his arduous work of ratiocination. As to Russia he says 
that the old state of affairs in the West must be swept away and 
that this could only be done from the East, since the Easterner 
alone feels real hatred —for the Westerner, that is—and Russia is 
the only close-knit power in the East, seswes being the only 
country in Europe where there is still ‘cohesion’. As to our 
illusions about internal class struggles, he maintains that 1. the 
workers feel no ‘hatred’, 2. if they did feel hatred, they would 
never have achieved anything by it; 3. they are a ‘rabble’ (who 
have no interest in the Synoptics*) and ought to be curbed and 
directed solely by force and cunning; 4. with them one silver 
groschen rise in pay is enough to settle ‘the whole caboodle’. In 
any case, no one who was not a ‘descendant of the conquerors’ 
could play an historical role, except in the field of theory. And 
there something had doubtless been done during the past 16 
years, though only in Germany and, indeed, by Bruno alone. It 
was thanks to him that ‘scientific’ theology had ceased to exist in 
Germany, the only place where it had existed, and that “Tholuck was 
writing no longer’. Voila un résultat immense.“ In other respects, a 
pleasant old gentleman. Proposes to stay a year in England. I 
believe he is planning to introduce into England the ‘scientific 
theology’ which has ceased to exist in Germany. He declares 
Humboldt to be a complete ass because he has fraudulently 
arrogated to himself abroad the fame due to Bruno. 

You should write to old Harvey about your ears. He is also 
treating Lina’ from afar and, having heard that she is merely a 
GOVERNESS in spe, has not even charged her a centime. Herewith Lina’s 
first report, which you should return. 

I am sending you a scrawl of Urquhart’s' which they sent me 
before the paper came out.’ The ‘revelations’ about the history oF 
Chartism [are] inveep highly naive, since Urquhart turns out to be 

a Bruno Bauer - > great exemplar -¢ That’s tremendous result. - 4 Caroline 
SchGler - ¢ prospective - f “The Chartist Correspondence’, The Free Press, No. 15, 19 
January 1856. 

an English police spy while deluding himself that he played Cicero 

to Catiline. I see in the Berlin National-Zeitung that Bucher, 

Prussian minister in spe, has even adopted Urquhart’s ‘philosophy’ 

which he repeats parrot-fashion. That’s trés fort* for a German. 
Salut. 

Your 
K. M.