Note 150 — V THE HEIRESS OF GREAT BRITAIN (HERRENHAUSEN, 1701-1714)

See E. Pfleiderer, Leibniz als Patriot, Staatsmann, und Bildungsträger (Leipzig, 1870), and, of course, Kuno Fischer’s great work.—Perhaps the most signal instance of the way in which in the political thought of Leibniz past and future came into contact (he says himself: ‘le présent est chargé du passé et gros de l’avenir’) is, as Ernst Curtius says (Alterthum und Gegenwart, pp. 219 sqq.), his famous Egyptian plan, of which an account was published in a pamphlet in London, à propos of the French invasion of 1803, and as to which see Guhrauer’s Life, and K. G. Blumenthal, Leibnizens Ægyptischer Plan (Leipzig, 1869).