Excerpt from Germany in the Nineteenth Century: Second Series The First Series of Lectures published under this title appeared in the spring of 1912. The favourable reception accorded to them, as well as to the German translation, by Professor Karl Breul, issued at the beginning of the present year, has encouraged the publication of a Second Series. The Committee of the Manchester University Press has authorised this step the more readily since the original five lectures confessedly left untouched many sections of the vast and complex domain denoted by the title, and in fact offered the reader merely a meagre instalment of what he had a right to expect. The second instalment now issued is still far indeed from exhausting the field. But it at least makes good three capital deficien cies. There may, for aught we know, be out of the way corners of the fields of science and art, of theory and practice, of work and play, to which Germany in the Nineteenth Century made only negligible contributions. But the student of Philosophy, or of Theology, who should neglect what Germany effected in these domains, virtually turns his back also Upon the Nineteenth Century itself. Of her Music it wouldibe superfluous to Speak. It is hoped that the three essays now published, the work of men whose life-labours have brought them into close and continual touch with the scholarly or creative energy of Germany in their several fields, may, like their predecessors, prove acceptable, whether as sources of information often difficult of access, oras attempts to sift and evaluate some passages of enduring moment in a history of modern civilisation. C. H. Herford. The University, Manchester, 13 November, 1914. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.