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able and accomplished Dr. Kuhn; next southwestward into Saxe-Weimar, to 
the birth place of Goethe, Schiller and Werner, and to the grand old univer¬ 
sity and the agricultural school at Jena; thence through the beautiful country 
embraced within the duchies of Saxe-Gotha and Eisenach and the electorate 
of Hesse Cassel to the city of Cassel, and thence northward to the ancient 
university of Gottingen and the agricultural school of Weden, in the late 
kingdom of Hanover, (just this season absorbed into Prussia.) My visits to 
the agricultural department of the university of Halle and to this Weden 
agricultural school of the university of Gottingen were both made at the 
special request of Baron Liebig, on account of their having been planned 
under his direction, or at least on the basis of his suggestions, and as being 
especially worthy of my attention. 
The city of Hanover, with its noted polytechnic school and many inciden¬ 
tal attractions lay next in the path of my intended travel, and thither I went, 
accordingly, from Gottingen ; then to Magdeburg; from thence, across the 
rather barren country intervening, to Potsdam, summer residence of the King 
of Prussia, and finally to the great center of German power and the literary 
centre of the world, the Prussian capital. 
It had been my hope, at Berlin, to meet my old-time friend, Ex-Governor 
Joseph A. Wright of Indiana, late United States Minister at the Prussian 
Court; but sadly enough that noble friend of American industry and educa¬ 
tion had just died and been buried the week before. I had also thought of 
seeing Count Bismarck, King William, and the imperial Alexander of Russia, 
all of whom were daily looked for from Paris. But the university, with its 
distinguished Ranke, Ehrenberg, Michelet, Hoffman, and some one hundred 
other famous professors, the magnificent polytechnic school, the school of 
architecture, and a dozen or more technical schools, the artillery and engin¬ 
eer school, the veterinary school, and sundry normal and other institutes, the 
academies of design and of music, tjtie great palace of the king, the depart¬ 
ments of state, and the magnificent art galleries and museums were there and 
gave me about the busiest nine days I ever spent in any European city. 
The Prussian people are unmistakably proud of their last year’s brilliant 
successes. It is apparant in all they do and say that they are buoyant with 
hope and confident, at no distant day, of making reunited Germany under 
Prussia’s direction the strongest power on the continent—a definitely possi¬ 
ble consummation, if their government should be wise enough to win the still 
outstanding states of Southern Germany by such concessions of political as well 
as^commerical privileges and advantages as it really ought to make. A con¬ 
solidation of the German States, and their permanent unity are possible, on 
the basis of liberty and equality, but not otherwise. It is still a question 
whether so great a boon to this noble, freedom-loving people is to be realized 
under the ad ninistration of King William, or whether they will have to 
wait a little longer. The final unity is sure to come, and a larger freedom 
of the whole German people and a consequent progress of which they have 
as yet hardly dreamed will follow. All in all, their systems of education, 
