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21.	Pollution caused by a Chemical Factory in the Westphalian town of Iserlohn (1839-1852) With German industrialization and urbanization only starting between 1815 and 1866, environmentalism as a movement to protect nature against industrial pollution did not yet play a role. The passages....
22.	Classical and Romantic Cultural Styles: Exchange of Letters between Clemens Prince von Metternich and King Frederick William IV of Prussia (1840) Classical and Romantic styles collide in this exchange of letters between Clemens Prince von Metternich....
23.	Excerpts from Two Sermons by Friedrich August Tholuck: "What is Human Reason Worth?" (c. 1840) and "When is Greater Civic Freedom Fortunate for a People?" (1848) An active preacher and prolific writer, the Awakened theology professor Friedrich August Tholuck....
24.	John Prince-Smith: Excerpts from his Collected Writings (1843-63) Due to dissatisfaction with restrictions on guild rights, protective tariffs, and feudal agricultural law, the idea of free trade gained increasing support. One of the most important proponents of....
25.	"Germany's Unification" (1843) Published in the Düsseldorfer Zeitung (September 3 and 5, 1843), the article "Germany's Unification" criticizes the existing German Confederation. It calls for a unified German nation-state....
26.	Berthold Auerbach: Preface to Village Tales from the Black Forest (1844) Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882) was one of Germany's most widely read Realist novelists. In the preface....
27.	Jakob Marx on the Exhibition of the Holy Shroud in Trier (1844) In this passage from The History of the Holy Shroud in the Cathedral Church in Trier (1844), Professor Jakob Marx (1803-1876) of the Trier Theological Seminary vividly describes one example....
28.	Friedrich Eichhorn to Count Adolf Heinrich von Arnim (June 7, 1844) This July 7, 1844, letter from Prussian Minister of Religious and Educational Affairs Friedrich Eichhorn (1779–1856) to Prussian Interior Minister Count Adolf Heinrich von Armin (1803–1868) makes....
29.	Excerpt from the Staats-Lexikon: "Constitution" (1845-1848) In the entry "Constitution," published in the Staats-Lexikon (1845-1848), Carl von Rotteck....
30.	Excerpts from the Staats-Lexikon: "Family, Family Law" (1845-1848) This entry from Carl von Rotteck's and Carl Welcker's Staats-Lexikon (1845-1848) on "Family,....
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