Six Lectures on the History of German Thought from the Seven Years' War to Goethe's Death: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, May & June 1879 ...Longmans, Green, and Company, 1880 - 290 páginas |
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absolute abstract æsthetic ancients artistic beauty became become Börne character Christianity civilisation classical culture culture of Germany despotism disciples dogmas eighteenth century England English Europe existence eyes F. A. Wolf faculties faith feeling France Frederick French gave genius German idea Goethe Goethe and Schiller Goethe's Greek Hegel Heine Hellenic civilisation Herder human ideal imagination individual influence inspiration intellectual intuition Italian Kant Kant's Klopstock language Leibnitz Lessing Lessing's liberty literary literature living Louis XIV mankind ment Middle Ages mind modern moral movement natural science never once patriotism philology philosophy pietism poem poet poetical poetry political preached principle Protestant Protestantism Pure Reason rationalistic reaction reality reigned religion religious Renaissance Revolution romantic romanticism romanticists Rousseau Schiller Schlegel sense social soul spirit teleology theology theory things thought tion true unity Voltaire wanted whole Wieland Winckelmann words young Young Germany youth
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Página 167 - Ingenium misera quia fortunatius arte Credit et excludit sanos Helicone poetas Democritus, bona pars non ungues ponere curat, Non barbam, secreta petit loca, balnea vitat.
Página 40 - Germany came out of the Thirty Years' War almost expiring. It was as if a deadly illness had wiped out the memory of the nation in its cruel delirium. All the national forces, material as well as intellectual and moral, were destroyed when peace was concluded in 1648. There are fertile wars and sterile wars ; civil and religious wars belong mostly to the latter class. Still the religious wars in France, and the Great Rebellion in England, were light spring storms compared with that terrible Thirty...
Página 38 - Netherlands, and about the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century was brought thence to England by protestant refugees. Lewis Roberts, in ' The Treasure of Traffic,' published in 1641, makes the earliest mention extant of the manufacture in England.
Página 192 - He waited patiently for a voluntary revelation, ie until he could surprise that secret by an intuitive glance; for it was his conviction that if you live intimately with Nature, she will sooner or later disclose her mysteries to you. If you read his ' Songs,' his ' Werther,' his ' Wahlverwandtschaften,' you feel that extraordinary intimacy — I had almost said identification — with nature, present everywhere.
Página 124 - • Poetry in those happy days lived in the ears of the people, on the lips and in the hearts of singing bards ; it sang of history, of the events of the day, of mysteries, miracles, and signs. It was the flower of a nation's character, language, and country ; of its occupations, its prejudices, its passions, its aspirations, and its soul.
Página 221 - The doctrine of all genuine idealists from the Eleatic School down to Bishop Berkeley is contained in this formula : All cognition through the senses and experience is nothing but illusion ; and in the ideas of the pure understanding and reason alone is truth. "The principle, however, that rules and determines my idealism throughout is this : All cognition out of pure understanding or pure reason is...
Página 43 - Many schools and churches stood abandoned, for public instruction and public worship had nearly perished. The highly cultivated language of Luther was utterly forgotten, together with the whole literature of his time. The most vulgar vices had taken root in people who had been reared from their infancy in the horrors of war. Every higher aim and interest had been lost sight of ; not a vestige of a national tradition remained. There was no middle class nor gentry left; the higher noblemen had become...
Página 191 - Goethe the savant and the thinker; nay, even science he practised as a poet. As one of the greatest physicists of our days, - Helmholtz, has said of him, “He did not try to translate nature into abstract conceptions, but takes it as a complete work of art, which must reveal its contents spontaneously to an intelligent observer.
Página 115 - Everything that a man undertakes to produce, whether by action, word, or in whatsoever way, ought to spring from the union of all his faculties.