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of sympathy with the common man, Giesebrecht, Kaiserzeit, i. 136. unclouded vision, inventive genius, and irresistible will, Freytag, Aus dem Mittelalter, i. 321. This charming writer should include in the necessary qualities of a great man a fellow-feeling with the people. There has never been a truly great man without it. to make his way with the acclamations of the world to the nearest possible realization of these two ideas. As the reward of the German who smote the Saracens at Poitiers, the office and title of king, with the concurrence of the pope, passed into his family. His grandson, Charlemagne, carried Christianity to the North Sea by force of arms, prescribing to the lowland Saxons alike religion and allegiance; and dividing their territory into bishoprics, with endowments of land and local authority. Having achieved the union of Germany, he laid the foundations of his power in the class of free Germans. Of these he would not suffer the number to be diminished, o