This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II GERMAN CIVIL AND FINANCIAL HISTORY, 1806-1870 In the foregoing chapter I have sketched roughly-- I have tried to give the reader an impression of--the financial and social conditions underlying the history of culture in Germany up to about the year 1789. A very slight acquaintance with the intellectual history of Germany will let the reader know, for instance, that two great men who existed in Germany at this epoch --Goethe and Hegel--were not by any means distinguished for ardent patriotism or for attachment to the German ideal. I have tried to suggest the reason for this lack of patriotism--the fact that there was nothing in particular for a German to be patriotic to. 'It is possible to have a local patriotism--a patriotism for Notting Hill or for Bronx Park--when behind Bronx Park and Notting Hill there are respectively New York City, the State of New York, and the United States of North America; or the City of London, the Administrative County of London, the United Kingdom, and the British Empire. But such a local patriotism is much more difficult to arouse when the State to which one is subject is not so large as the Borough of Paddington and much smaller than the suburb of Hoboken; and when the State is entirely isolated. A great mind--and both Goethe and Hegel had minds greater than those of the common lot of humanity--must have something larger than what is immediately under its nose to attach itself to. 18 The Countess von Platen--I mean the mistress of both the Elder Elector and his son the Younger Elector, who was afterwards George I of England-- and the mistress also, no doubt, of the gallant adventurer Koenigsmark, whose mistress in turn was the Electress Sophia Dorothea, afterwards the uncrowned Queen of England--this dangerous and terri...
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