THE PRUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



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even in the decade from 1681 to 1691 had a low idea of the culture of 

 Prussia, he was not long in discovering that it was only under the 

 leadership of the Prussian elector that the German protestant states 



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could be united in an academy. Hence his efforts to interest Sophie 

 Charlotte in his enterprise. Through Prussia, he wrote her, he 'saw 

 the gateway to Eussia, and through Russia the gateway to China.' 



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