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book was finished. He was three months writing it, without
counting the previous work of preparation.
What Feuerbach deplored was that he could no longer reason
from facts as clearly as formerly, and therefore his book was not
carried out so far as he intended. As a narrator he felt as strong
as ever, and facts were what was wanted in this matter. The very
letter in which he makes this complaint is composed in as clear
and concise a style as the healthiest thinker could employ.
He directs also that his book on Kaspar Hauser be given to
his son’s fatherly friend, the worthy Senter. If he had considered
the work a failure, or incorrect in its statements, he would not
have bequeathed it to one of the most revered of his friends,
Daumer’s book contains most of the information found in
other writings upon this strange mystery, and the fact that he
collected and repeated the statements forty years after Kaspar
Hauser’s death, is a proof that he considered the case established
and proven.
Professor Daumer spent the last years of his life in Frankfort,
and died there in 1875.
His mother died many years earlier; his sister, as Widow
Valentin. was living at Frankfort as late as 1883.
In 1874 the Director of the Library and Archives of Nurem-
berg, Johann Paul Priem, published a history of the city, wherein
the story of Kaspar Hauser is given due space.
In 1875 Dr. Wilhelm Martens of Danzig published a lecture
which he had delivered upon Kaspar Hauser. It contained un-
reserved accusations against the house of Baden, and expressed
the writer's firm belief in the identity of the foundling with the
elder son of Grand-Duke Karl. Articles appeared also in the
Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung and in the Vossische Zeitung of
Berlin.
In 1876 appeared a book entitled, « Kaspar Hauser und sein
Badisches Prinzenthum,” by Dr. Otto Mittelstadt of Heidelberg.
It is a violent denial of the identity of Kaspar Hauser with the