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Excerpt from Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Vol. 1 of 3: Visited in 1837
But though the nature of the motives which lead an individual to pursue any given line of conduct, be a subject of interest to himself alone, the public have a perfect right to re quire from him competent reasons for the adoption of such sentiments as he may judge it expedient to express relative to the state of society in places which he has undertaken to describe. I freely acknowledge this right, in the abstract, and will not, I trust be found practically to have contradicted it. My work speaks for itself; so that I need not enter here into a lengthened discussion of points which have received their full share of attention else where. I shall merely repeat, therefore, that if the views which I have taken of the moral and religious condition of Germany be erroneous, the fault has been committed, not only through no prejudice against the German character, but in opposition to prejudices which ran strongly in its favour.
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