Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Medieval Empire, Vol. 1
The Napoleonic wars in the realm of fact, and the Romantic movement in the realm of fancy, set men seeking for the history of the Germans. Where was it to be found? Herder, who brought into Germany that philosophic method of treating the past, which had been so brilliantly expounded beyond the Rhine by Montesquieu and by Voltaire, and who did more to breathe life into the dry bones of history than any German except N iebuhr, indicates one very obvious answer. The empire was a huge mistake, and had involved Germany in unending political shame. There was no profit in studying the political history of this non-national empire, with its coronation garments out after the Spanish fashions of Charles V. The true history of Germany was social and economic, not military. There was a type of character, Simple, honest, loyal, poetic, which belonged to the Germans, and which had been evolved in the course of German history. That was worth studying, and so too were the social and moral differences between one part of Germany and another.
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