Went to church. Afterwards received visitors. R. learns that the newspapers said Herr Scaria had demanded 2,000 gulden for the entire stay in Bayreuth and had been rejected by the board of directors! R. demands a correction through Standhartner. —
R. reads in the History of the Arabs and says: The more he sees what hardships the birth of a state brings with it, the more convinced he becomes how sacrilegious it is to tamper with its organization, and how fortunate one must consider oneself to possess dynasties. The state-forming nature, in its instinct, knew what it was creating thereby. —
R. is deeply troubled; “ever heavier,” he says, “becomes the baseness one has to deal with; such experiences as I am having now I have never had before!” Herr Groß has told him that when they tried from here to counter the lies in the newspapers about the sale of our house, no one accepted the notice! …
R. very depressed; our evening is sad! I sort the letters and bills and, as the first expense of this year, the grave tax for my brother in Berlin.