his arm.  He walked on rapidly, but with a singular sort of stagger; so that he was sometimes on one and sometimes on the other side of the way, and formed a complete zigzag as he went.  The wags said that he made this irregular step to get out of the way of the departed souls, who might follow him in a straight line, and that he imitated those who are afraid of a crocodile.  But all these jests and many merry sayings were transformed at last into respect for him, when he devoted his handsome dwelling-house in Eschenheimer Street, with court, garden, and all other appurtenances, to a medical establishment, where, in addition to a hospital designed exclusively for the citizens of Frankfort, a botanic garden, an anatomical theatre, a chemical laboratory, a considerable library, and a house for the director, were instituted in a way of which no university need have been ashamed.

Another eminent man, whose efficiency in the neighborhood and whose writings, rather than his presence, had a very important influence upon me, was Charles Frederick von Moser, who was perpetually referred to in our district for his activity in business.  He also had a character essentially moral, which, as the vices of human nature frequently gave him trouble, inclined him to the so-called pious.  Thus, what Von Loen had tried to do in respect to court-life, he would have done for business-life; introducing into it a more conscientious mode of proceeding.  The great number of small German courts gave rise to a multitude of princes and servants, the former of whom desired unconditional obedience; while the latter, for the most part, would work or serve only according to their own convictions.  Thus arose an endless conflict, and rapid changes and explosions; because the effects of an unrestricted course of proceeding become much sooner noticeable and injurious on a small scale than on a large one.  Many families were in debt, and Imperial Commissions of Debts were appointed; others found themselves sooner or later on the same road:  while the officers either reaped an unconscionable profit, or conscientiously made themselves disagreeable and odious.  Moser wished to act as a statesman and man of business; and here his hereditary talent, cultivated to a profession, gave him a decided advantage:  but he at the same time wished to act as a man and a citizen, and surrender as little as possible of his moral dignity.  His “Prince and Servant,” his “Daniel in the Lions’ Den,” his “Relics,” paint throughout his own condition, in which he felt himself, not indeed tortured, but always cramped.  They all indicate impatience in a condition, to the bearings of which one cannot reconcile one’s self, yet from which one cannot get free.  With this mode of thinking and feeling, he was, indeed, often compelled to seek other employments, which, on account of his great cleverness, were never wanting.  I remember him as a pleasing, active, and, at the same time, gentle man.