Excerpt from History of the Eighteenth Century and of the Nineteenth Till the Overthrow of the French Empire, Vol. 6: With Particular Reference to Mental Cultivation and Progress The author has written a preface to the present volume, chiefly explanatory of the relation which the present form of his work bears to his former publications on the same subject. This preface would be in a great measure unintelligible and uninteresting to any but his German readers: it contains however some matters of general interest, of which the translator thinks it his duty to take notice, especially as they are calculated to give clearer views of the nature and objects of the whole work, of the author's ideas of the value and uses of History, of the special objects contemplated, and of the point of view from which the subject has been considered. 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.