Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Life and Times of Stein, or Germany and Prussia in the Napoleonic Age, Vol. 1 of 4
IT is not to set forth the merits of a great man who has been too little known that I write the life of Stein at such an unusual length, but on account of the intrinsic importance of the revolutions in which he took part. It has been my object to consider the transformation of Germany and Prussia in the Napoleonic age, which has usually been contemplated by us only as a part of the life of Napoleon, in its proper place as a part of German history.
When I first asked myself how this subject might best be treated, I remarked that it was one which especially needed to be gathered up in a person. I soon satisfied my self that the only person who could be taken in this way to represent his nation and his time was Stein.
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