 He settled in Winterthur, became co-editor of the Winterthurer Landboten, and joined a friend’s publishing house. He became very involved in Swiss politics, particularly in the movement to reform the constitution and make it more democratic—a movement that was particularly strong in his Zurich canton. He was on the boards of many social organizations and on various state committees as an expert on education, banking, and the railways (Weinkauff 1883, 30). During this time, he also taught occasionally at the Winterthur Gymnasium. He continued working on his contributions to Schmid’s education encyclopedia (Lange 1859–75) and he responded to criticisms of the first edition of his History of Materialism in Neue Beiträge zur Geschichte des Materialismus (Lange 1867).