AN EXTRAORDINARY LETTER

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 2, 21 June 1882, Page 3

AN EXTRAORDINARY LETTER

Herr Cohen, professor of mental science, having received notice from the German C_a._c.llor to present himself at Sclirimm (Prussia), for military services under the conscription,, has returned tbe following reply i—" My Dor Bismarck.— l f-.el highly flattered by your kind in

vitation addressed to me at DoJziz, my native town, to join the German a**ray, but am afraid I shall not be able to accept i', for I am now in the more? useful work, (a? I consider it) oi expounding ninntft! <*c' |,j n." , <?. and ten chin tj people '-«w to m*<k*_ thn hest of rbeir facult-ies. For .ho Sams' 1 , reason I scarcely teel myself at liberty to accept Qxen the hospitality of six months' V-ai-d find lodeing at the expense of tlie State, which ou considerately offered .ar- an alrerriPtive. T much prefer ba'kin_. in the sun shine of English liberty to being forced despotically into military servimde in mr o'.vt* country I have altogether ' (riven np fighting 1 since I left school. { I do not know that I have anvtbinar to fisrht about now, pnd I hardly care to c 'gage in fighting- at anyone else's bidding - . If you have a quarrel with anybody. T would .advise, you Ut settle it amicably if possible, Or plse litrht .* out yourself. It you havo 'fixed up" the army, -and you can make it convenient to run over l:cre at any time to one of my phrenological lectures, I shall be happy to point out the superiority of life in "England, and explain the nature -and utility of the, as 1 say, more useful work which I am engaged in ; and I will examine your head either publicly or privately free of charge. With kind regards to tbe Governor — I remain, yours faithfully, •' Gustavt.-' Cohen. , ____r