Beautiful it is to see and understand that no worth, known or unknown, can die even in this earth. The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green; it flows and flows, it joins itself with other veins and veinlets; one day, it will start forth as a visible perennial well.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian

“Varnhagen von Ense’s Memoirs,” London and Westminster Review, No. 62 (1838-12)
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A review of three books involving Lady Rahel Varnhagen von Ense.