Excerpt from Aspects of German Culture<br><br>Most of the shorter of the following letters are selected from a larger number written during the years 187 8 - 80, in the intervals of more special laboratory and other work, to appear in print later, and published as letters from Berlin and Leipsic in The Nation. The writer has spent nearly five years of post-graduate student-life in Germany. This period was divided near the middle by an interval of about eight years' absence following the franco-prussian war. Except the advantages of renewing old acquaintances and impressions across this interval, so eventful in Ger many, the writer has had no extraordinary opportuni ties for observation, and pretends to no exceptional immunity from error in fact or opinion. At the same time, and although some of the following topics are only remotely connected with his special lines of in terest, and are therefore only fragmentary, he has done his best to give well-digested opinions and relia ble information. In a number of these papers, only the latter is attempted.<br><br>The papers entitled The Muscular Perception of Space, and Laura Bridgman, reprinted from the English quarterly Mind; The Perception of Color, reprinted from the Proceedings of the Ameri can Academy of Arts and Sciences; and the Note on Hegel,' reprinted with a few prefatory pages from The Journal of Speculative Philosophy,' although more serious special studies, were written from stand points and with reference to questions so essentially German, that it is hoped that their republication under the title of this volume is not without sufficient jus tification.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.