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sarily increased by having Kaspar as an inmate, became tenderly 
attached to him ; Feuerbach was his friend and patron from the 
time of their first interview, and Mayor Binder, Baron von Tucher, 
and many other influential citizens of Nuremberg took an active 
interest in the foundling’s welfare, being drawn towards him even 
more by affection than by pity. 
Feuerbach says of him: 
““ Gentle, mild, free from evil inclinations, unmoved by passion, 
and innocent of all deceit, his quiet, even temper is like a calm 
lake in a moonlight night.” 
Daumer calls him— 
“ A being of angelic purity, displaying the most delicate moral 
feeling and a perfect love of truth.” 
Herr von Tucher describes him as— 
‘“ A being such as we may imagine in Paradise before the fall ; 
a precious, unique, ever to be remembered embodiment, which 
shone like a ray of heaven’s own light upon this impure, 
degraded world of sinners.” 
Such language may seem exaggerated ; but all these men had 
full opportunity to discover faults in the stranger, had any existed, 
and their frank recognition and unprejudiced, though charitable 
2xplanation of subsequent changes in Hauser’s character, entitle 
them to full belief as to their primary opinion. 
It was a new thing in Daumer’s experience, as a teacher of 
boys, to find a youth who was invariably respectful, obedient, in- 
ustrious, ambitious, truthful, pure minded, gentle, affectionate. 
All these fine traits undoubtedly belonged to Kaspar’s earliest 
development, awakening in his guardians the brightest hopes of a 
noble future for their protégé. His perfect sincerity was a strik- 
ing feature of his character. He said what he thought on all 
occasions without respect of persons, and apparently ignorant of 
the possibility of reserve, still less of deception. He told a high 
dignitary who called upon him, that he was busy with his studies 
and had no time to receive visits ; he reproved Mayor Binder for 
sending word to the door that he was out when he was really at 
home, and in many instances he corrected what he considered a