CHAPTER I .-- PREFATORY.
The Twelve Hercules-labors of this King have ended here; what was required of him in World-History is accomplished.

There remain to Friedrich Twenty-three Years more of Life, which to Prussian History are as full of importance as ever; but do not essentially concern European History, Europe having gone the road we now see it in.

On the grand World-Theatre the curtain has fallen for a New Act; Friedrich's part, like everybody's for the present, is played out.

In fact, there is, during the rest of his Reign, nothing of World-History to be dwelt on anywhere.

America, it has been decided, shall be English; Prussia be a Nation.