Before the revolution -- The first echoes -- The Hanoverian Whigs -- Gentz and Humboldt -- Klopstock and his school -- Wieland and herder -- Goethe -- Schiller -- The Romantic school -- Iffland and Kotzebue -- Kant -- Fichte and Hegel -- Georg Foster -- The Germans in France -- Woman's rights -- Prussia and the Revolution -- Prussia and the war -- Saxony, Brunswick and Hanover -- Hamburg, Weimar, and Gotha -- The Rhineland -- The South -- Conclusion