I will not fail to draw the attention of the Catholic nobly-born members of the knighthood to a poem which, though written by a commoner, is perhaps for this very reason the more worthy of being preserved as a precious pearl, as a due tribute of bourgeois humility. In the year of grace eighteen hundred and forty-two a booklet appeared in Erfurt published by F. W. Otto: Das Wissemw rdigste der Heraldik oder Wappenhunde by F. W. Andrea, with a dedication which reads as follows: Respectfully dedicated to the entire high nobility of Germany, by the publisher. Does the man not deserve to be knighted?
Andre� and the High Nobility of Germany by Frederick Engels