174 Nations lately become Litetary. [Ch. XXVI. 



and many others. While Mineralogy has re- 

 ceived immense improvements from the hands of 

 Henke], Woltersdorf, Vogel, Cartheuser, Voigt, 

 Gellert, Raspe, Pott, Margraaff, and Werner. 



At the commencement of the period under con- 

 sideration atill less had been done in Chemistry^ 

 by the German philosophers, than in either of 

 the preceding departments of science. How great 

 an amount of discovery and of useful experiment 

 they have presented to the public since that time, 

 it is unnecessary to state. The labours of Stahl, 

 Juncker, Pott, Margraaf, Neumann, Klaproth, 

 Crell, Meyer, Ingenhousz, Jacquin, and von Hum- 

 boldt, are kno^vn and esteemed wherever chemi- 

 cal science is studied. Of distinguished writers 

 on Medicine^ Germany has been, though not 

 equally, 3'et very honourably prolific during the 

 period under review. The claims of Stahl, Hoff- 

 mann, van Swieten, Hcister, Storck, Vogel, and 

 }^furray, to high honours, are generally acknow- 

 ledged. And beside these, de Haen, Meckel, 

 Weitbrccht, Sagar, Ilufeland, Reil, Roschlaub, 

 Reich, and many others, have contributed to raise 

 the medical character of their country. 



But it is chiefly with respect to progress in 

 literature^ strictly so called, that the eighteenth 

 century gave rise to such remarkable improve- 

 ments in Germany. In the Belles Lettres, and 

 in works of taste generally, that extensive empire 

 furnished nothing worthy of notice anterior to the 

 age under consideration. But within this period 

 no other part of the literary world has been, on 

 the whole, so abund*ntly productive of works of 

 this nature. 



