. The rule, “I sing the song of him whose bread I eat,” has always held good; the making of money by philosophy was regarded by the ancients as the characteristic of the sophists... Nothing is to be had for gold but mediocrity... It is impossible that an age which for twenty years has applauded a Hegel—that intellectual Caliban—as the greatest of the philosophers,... could make him who has looked on at that desirous of its approbation...
