"That I can believe; but keep calm now!"
Shortly afterwards, in _North and South_, Goldschmidt, on the
occasion of Broechner's candidature for parliament, had written that the
well-known atheist, H. Broechner, naturally, as contributor to _The
Fatherland_, was supported by the "Party." Now, there was nothing
that annoyed Broechner so much as when anyone called him an atheist, and
tried to make him hated for that reason,--the word, it is true, had a
hundred times a worse sound then than now,--he always maintaining that
he and other so-called atheists were far more religious than their
assailants. And although Goldschmidt's sins against Broechner were in
truth but small, although the latter, moreover--possibly unjustifiably--
had challenged him to the attack, Broechner nevertheless imbued me with
such a dislike of Goldschmidt that I could not regard him with quite
unprejudiced eyes.
Goldschmidt tried to make personal advances to me during my first stay
in Paris in 1866.
Besides the maternal uncle settled in France, of whom I have already
spoken, I had still another uncle, my father's brother, who had gone to
France as a boy, had become naturalised, and had settled in Paris. He
was a little older than my father, a somewhat restless and fantastic
character, whom Goldschmidt frequently met at the houses of mutual
friends.
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