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Excerpt from Lectures on the History of Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 of 2 IN the following discourses, it is my design to give a general view of the developement and of the spirit of literature among the most illustrious nations of an cient as Well as of modern times; but my principal object is to represent literature as it has exerted its influence on the affairs of active life, on the fate of nations, and on the progressive character of ages. During 'the last hundred years, the human mind, inore particularly in Germany, has undergone a great, and, in one point of view at least, a fortunate alte ration. Not that the individual productions of art. 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.