Excerpt from The German Spirit OF the three papers published here to gether, the first one was written in the spring of 1914; it was delivered as Con vocation Address at the University of Chicago in June, and appeared in the Atlantic Monthly for November of that year. The second essay was written in the spring of 1915 and appeared in the Atlantic for October. The third, a lecture delivered at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and various other educational in stitutions in February, 1916, has not been published before. 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.