Obituary to Isaak Iselin

In Pestalozzi's obituary one can read:

"During the time, when all the people who loved me just sighed, when they talked about me, Iselin smiled words of joy and bliss to me. He was my father, my teacher, my mainstay and my intensification… Perhaps I would have sunken into the depths without you and would have dwelt in the mud of my misery… Oh, then also my wife would have lost the comfort of my life and my child would have been without a father and his promising blossoming would have been destroyed… oh my father, during the storm of horror that destroyed years of exhausting work and cut my soul like a sword and confused my mind, during this storm you lend me your hand and your heart and your love… You saw my work and my suffering and my steadfastness. You saw my courage, my patience. You saw the strain of my forces and how I overcame my inclinations; you knew the scope of my work and the pressure of my circumstances and you evaluated my work for me not because of its success but because of the work itself. Oh, my friend! How much did I love you when people all around just talked about my nonsense and my unsaveable foolishness, when I was to vain and laid too deep and felt too much to answer and to contradict only one of those, who talked about me thoughtlessly and unfeelingly." (PSW 8, p. 223 f.)