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Max Havelaar
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Yet I said this more out of anger, and a desire to speak in Latin of all this learning before me, than because I meant it. For if I examined something or other for a time, I was bound to confess that the author appeared to know all about it, and had even a great deal of sound argu­ment in support of his opinions. I found in the parcel treatises and disquisitions—

On the Sanscrit, as the Mother of the Teutonic Lan­guages;

On the Punishment of Infanticide;

On the Origin of the Nobility;

On the Difference between the Ideas : “Infinite time,” and “Eternity;”

On the Theory of Chances;

On the Book of Job—(there was something else about Job; but in verse);

On the Proteïne in the Atmospheric Air;

On Russian Politics;

On the Vowels;

On the Cellular Prisons;

On the Ancient Hypotheses;

Of the “Horror vacui;

On the Desirableness of the Abolition of Punishments for Slander;

On the Causes of the Revolt of the Dutch against Spain, not being the Desire for Religious or Political Free­dom;