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1. 18. don-quichottisme cosmopolite alludes to the romantic zeal for cosmopolitism that pervaded the writings of Herder and Kant (Herder, Briefe zur Bef'ôrderung der Humanitat, and I5th ch. of the Ideen zu Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit ; Kant, Ideen zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltburgerlicher Absicht). Even Lessing's works, in one sensé so decidedly national, incite German patriotism to a broad and humane view of things. See Introd., hii.

1. 20. There was, at that time, a revival of the Christian fervour which had developed about the middle of the seventeenth century under the influence of mystics like Jacob Bôhme and Johann Arndt, and of theologians like Spener and A. H. Francke. This movement had great analogy with Methodism in England, and was due to the same causes.

Page 11, 1. 10 fï. See Introd., Iv and Ivi. I. 34. colère hère is an adjective.

Page 12. 1. 8. The Waterloo monument in Berlin is a bronze one.

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