October 2. No letter from Hoyos in a long time. He must be ill. I hope he will soon be well again, the splendid man! There are not many in our aristocracy who are so free and grand and magnanimous in their thoughts, and who are so entirely opposite to reactionary—almost socialistic. Note this example of it: Lately a collection was taken for the unemployed. Hoyos added the following verses to his contribution: _Sammlung für die Arbeitslosen_ For the unemployed, collections,— Coal, old clothes, and doles of bread, Linen, hose,—they’re no corrections For the want so widely spread! Do not mitigate starvation; See that hunger you expel; Then you’ll make the demonstration That you love your neighbor well. Give not alms to your poor neighbor; Stop the source of poverty;[15] Do not limit, hamper Labor; Make its course forever free! In the Code’s indwelling spirit Let not Law o’er Duty stand; Let them the same place inherit; Let all men the Law command! October 10. The Emperor of Russia has been in Vienna. From there he went to Breslau, Balmoral, Paris. The result of it is _Pax et Robur_. So at least some remark; others say the result is _Revanche_; still a third think that everything remains as it was before. But this last is not correct. It has brought about something new, to wit,—that in divided and split-up and hostile Europe the sovereign of one country travels to another and goes everywhere as a friend and is everywhere received as a friend. Indeed, if Europe were a civilized complex of states, that would be as natural and as much a matter of course as it is for a landed proprietor to make a series of visits among all the neighboring families. Not in half a century, perhaps, has the word “peace” been so frequently, so emphatically, so solemnly, so universally repeated in speeches and newspapers as it has been in consequence of this journey. That shows the tendency of the _Zeitgeist_; but it is still far from the peace that we mean. For the whole affair abounds in contradictions, especially the contradiction that exists between the new tendency and the old institutions, views, and political constellations still intrenched in power. Here is a monster of contradiction, such as the history of the world has never before displayed: two mutually opposed shields loaded with explosives; two hostile guardians of the peace, or two peaceable guardians of enmity,—_Dreibund_ and _Zweibund_. Why not equally well _Fünfbund_?