The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume V | Page 2

by Mrs. A.L.W. Wister
Adalbert von Chamisso
The Castle of Boncourt. Translated by Alfred Baskerville The Lion's Bride. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman Woman's Love and Life. Translated by Alfred Baskerville The Women of Weinsberg. Translated by Bayard Taylor and Lilian Bayard Taylor Kiliani The Crucifix. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman The Old Singer. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman The Old Washerwoman. From the Foreign Quarterly The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl. Translated by Frederic H. Hedge
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
The Golden Pot. Translated by Frederic H. Hedge
Friedrich Baron de la Motte-Fouqu��
Selections from Undine. Translated by F.E. Bunnett
Wilhelm Hauff
Cavalryman's Morning Song. Translated by Herman Montagu Donner The Sentinel. Translated by John Oxenford
Friedrich R��ckert
Barbarossa. Translated by Bayard Taylor and Lilian Bayard Taylor Kiliani From My Childhood Days. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman The Spring of Love. Translated by Alfred Baskerville He Came to Meet Me. Translated by Bayard Taylor The Invitation. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman Murmur Not. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman A Parable. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman Evening Song. Translated by H.W. Dulcken Chidher. Translated by Margarete M��nsterberg At Forty Years. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman Before the Doors. Translated by H.W. Dulcken
August von Platen-Hallermund
The Pilgrim Before St. Just's. Translated by Lord Lindsay The Grave of Alaric. Translated by Bayard Taylor and Lilian Bayard Taylor Kiliani Remorse. Translated by Henry W. Longfellow Would I were Free as are My Dreams. Translated by Percy MacKaye Sonnet. Translated by Margarete M��nsterberg

ILLUSTRATIONS--VOLUME V
Heidelberg Friedrich Schleiermacher. By E. Hader The Three Hermits. By Moritz von Schwind Johann Gottlieb Fichte. By Bury Volunteers of 1813 before King Friedrich Wilhelm III in Breslau. By F.W. Scholtz Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling. By Carl Begas The Jungfrau. By Moritz von Schwind The Magic Horn. By Moritz von Schwind Ludwig Achim von Arnim. By Str?hling Clemens Brentano. By E. Linder The Reaper. By Walter Crane Wilhelm Grimm. By E. Hader Jacob Grimm. By E. Hader H?nsel and Gretel. By Ludwig Richter Ernst Moritz Arndt. By Julius R?ting Theodor K?rner. By E. Hader Maximilian Gottfried von Schenkendorf Ludwig Uhland. By C. J?ger The Villa by the Sea. By Arnold B?cklin Leaving at Dawn. By Moritz von Schwind Joseph von Eichendorff. By Franz Kugler Adalbert von Chamisso. By C. J?ger The Wedding Journey. By Moritz von Schwind Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hofmann. By Hensel Friedrich Baron de la Motte-Fouqu�� Wilhelm Hauff. By E. Hader The Sentinel. By Robert Haug Friedrich R��ckert. By C. J?ger Memories of Youth. By Ludwig Richter August Graf von Platen-Hallermund The Morning Hour. By Moritz von Schwind

THE ROMANTIC PHILOSOPHERS--FICHTE, SCHELLING, AND SCHLEIERMACHER
By FRANK THILLY, PH.D., LL.D. Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University
The Enlightenment of the eighteenth century had implicit faith in the powers of human reason to reach the truth. With its logical-mathematical method it endeavored to illuminate every nook and corner of knowledge, to remove all obscurity, mystery, bigotry, and superstition, to find a reason for everything under the sun. Nature, religion, the State, law, morality, language, and art were brought under the searchlight of reason and reduced to simple and self-evident principles. Human institutions were measured according to their reasonableness; whatever was not rational had no _raison d'��tre_; to demolish the natural and historical in order to make room for the rational became the practical ideal of the day. Enlightenment emphasized the worth and dignity of the human individual, it sought to deliver him from the slavery of authority and tradition, to make him self-reliant in thought and action, to obtain for him his natural rights, to secure his happiness and perfection in a world expressly made for him, and to guarantee the continuance of his personal existence in the life to come. In Germany this great movement found expression in a popular commonsense philosophy which proved the existence of God, freedom, and immortality, and conceived the universe as a rational order designed by an all-wise and all-good Creator for the benefit of man, his highest product; while other thinkers regarded Spinozism as the only rational system, indeed as the last word of all speculative metaphysics; for them logical thought necessarily led to pantheism and determinism. In France, after reaching its climax in Voltaire, it ended in materialism, atheism, and fatalism; and in England, where it had developed the empiricism of Locke, it came to grief in the scepticism of Hume. If we can know only our impressions, then rational theology, cosmology, and psychology are impossible, and it is futile to philosophize about God, the world, and the human soul. Consistently carried out, the logical-mathematical method seemed to land the intellect in Spinozism or in materialism--in either case to catch man in the causal machinery of nature. In this dilemma many were tempted to throw reason overboard as an instrument of ultimate truth, and to seek for certainty through