Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Pictures of German Life, Vol. 1 of 2: In the Xviiith and Xixth Centuries
But, though it may be no longer necessary to cheer soul with hope, yet it is a pleasing task to demonstrate the point to which we have attained in comparison with the past, and in comparison with other civilised nations why we were obliged to remain behind in many things which our neighbours possess in abundance, and why we have made other acquisitions in advance of them. It is in structive for us to make such inquiries, and the answer that we shall find' may be instructive to other nations. N 0 individual can give a satisfactory solution to each single question; even the strongest mind can but imper fectly comprehend the great life of his nation: the clearest eye and the most ingenuous judgment is contracted in comparison with the great unity of the people. But, how ever imperfect may be the portrait given by individuals of the life of their nation, yet each contemporary will discover some main features of the picture lying in his own soul, more especially he who stands in the same grade of culti vation with the delineator.
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