A very somnambulating Century! But what little it DID, we must call Friedrich; what little it THOUGHT, Voltaire.

Other fruit we have not from it to speak of, at this day.

Voltaire, and what CAN be faithfully done on the Voltaire Creed; 'Realized Voltairism;'-- admit it, reader, not in a too triumphant humor,--is not that pretty much the net historical product of the Eighteenth Century?
The rest of its history either pure somnambulism; or a mere Controversy, to the effect, 'Realized Voltairism?
How soon shall it be realized, then?
Not at once, surely!' So that Friedrich and Voltaire are related, not by accident only.

They are, they for want of better, the two Original Men of their Century; the chief and in a sense the sole products of their Century.

They alone remain to us as still living results from it,--such as they are.