“A large city, the center of a kingdom, in which are found the provincial colleges of the government of the same, which has a university (for the cultivation of the sciences) and therewith also a position for maritime trade which favors commerce from within the country, via rivers, as well as with outlying countries over the border with different languages and manners — such a city as Königsberg on the Pregel river — can indeed be considered a seemly place for the expansion of the knowledge of both man and the world, where these can be acquired even without traveling.”113