text:  For the nice practical problems of diplomacy he was perhaps the very worst man in the world; and what Varnhagen states in the place just referred to that Schlegel was what we should call in England far too much of a high churchman for Prince Metternich is only too manifest from the well-known ecclesiastical policy of the Austrian government contrasted as it is with the ultramontane and Guelphic views propounded by the Viennese lecturer in his philosophy of the eleventh and twelfth centuries