Dying he had bequeathed his perverse genius to Berlin.

It was the corrupting city of Germany.

Military men educated in the school of Frederic, academies modelled after the genius of Voltaire, colonies of Jews enriched by war, and the French refugees, peopled Berlin and formed the public mind.

This mind, full of levity, sceptic, impertinent and sneering, intimidated the rest of Germany.

The weakened spirit of that land may be dated from the period of Frederic II.