The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2

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Excerpt from The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2: In a Course of Lectures, Delivered at Vienna Had the court of Austria acceded to the proposal of Leibnitz for establishing at Vienna that academy of sci ences which he afterwards succeeded in founding at Berlin, the glory of that great resuscitation of the German mind, which occurred in the middle of the eighteenth century, would have then probably redounded to Catholic, rather than to Protestant, Germany. But the German Catholics, though they started later in the career of intel lectual improvement, have at length reached, and even outstripped, their Protestant brethren in the race. Three or four years before Schlegel embraced the Catholic faith, the signal for a return to the ancient church was given by the illustrious Count Stolberg. The religious impulse, which this great man imparted to Ger man literature, was simultaneous with that Christian te generation of philosophy, commenced in France by the Viscount de Bouald. And these two illustrious men, in the noble career which five and thirty years ago they Opened in their respective countries, have been followed by a series of gigantic intellects, who have restored the empire of faith, regenerated art and science, and reno yated, if I may so speak, the human mind itself.' 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.