text:  It is only therefore in the way of scattered notices drawn from various sources that a knowledge of such a German statesman as Stein can be obtained; and these sources also from the same evil influence of the censorship are necessarily very imperfect; the men who knew Stein and were in possession of correspondence and other papers that might illustrate his life are all _marked_ men; to the government of the bureaucracy _suspected_ men--men who had many of them like the Baron himself been immediately after the peace subjected to the most odious kinds of moral and sometimes corporeal persecution