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...Tms work in its oripl, German form has already, since its publication fourteen years ago, exercised. on the Continent an influence, quite out of proportion to its slender size. In view of this influence alone it may be affirmed that 1 and Thou wi...

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...4 • July 1947 8e~19M TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION Tms work in its oripl, German form has already, since its publication fourteen years ago, exercis... ...lish under the title God Transcendent, shows, espe­ 'cially in the earlier German editions, that his investi­ gation of the problem of transcendenoe l... ... the Triune God) he attempts an investigation of the relation of faith to history. The controlling a:ffi.rma.tion of his thesis is the reality of o... ...a.tion of his thesis is the reality of our consciousness of other selves: history for him is constituted where two persons meet. Applying this, x ... ...where two persons meet. Applying this, x thought to the modem theory of history as a process within an unbroken causal system, where facts are to ... ... might .have helped to explain a word or two, or indicate nuances of the German which the English has lost; but, though the word might have been ex... ...ation of the heyday. It may take the form of direct acceptance of what is contemporary, as Greece accepted the Egyptian world; or it may tak~ the f...

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...ty over the land By Danube wash’d, whenas he strays beyond The limits of his German shores. The realm, Where, on the gulf by stormy Eurus lash’d, Betw... ...ssertion chiefly on the fact of a certain Romieu de Villeneuve, who was the contemporary of that prince, having left large possessions behind him, a... ...I the former my grandfather king of Naples and Sicily; the latter emperor of Germany, my father in law; “both celebrated in the Purgatory Canto, Vll.... ...noese made by the Saracens in 936, for which event Vellutello refers to the history of Augustino Giustiniani. v. 91. This heav’n.] The planet Venus... ...tered into the Dominican order. He then taught theology in various parts of Germany, and particularly at Cologne. Thomas Aquinas was his favourite ... ...ntury, Paulus Orosius, “acquired a considerable degree of reputation by the History he wrote to refute the cavils of the Pagans against Christianity... ...he kingdom of Rassia, or Ratza, in Sclavonia, from 1161 to 1371, and whose history may be found in Mauro Orbino, Regno degli Slavi, Ediz. Pesaro. 1...

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...w it "selected"? The Universe is constrained in this "selection process" by its own history, but its history is not synonymous with the Laws of Natu... ...lf evident: the Universe "selected" both the Natural Laws and, as a result, its own history, in a process akin to Natural Selection. Whatever increa... ..." at low energies. But otherwise SM is one of the more successful theories in the history of physics. It renormalized QFT and, thus, re-defined ma... ...he esoteric. The emergence of pseudo-science is the sad outcome of the blurring of contemporary distinctions between physics and metaphysics. Moder... ...But if a highly incredible event does occur it merely limns the limitations of our contemporary knowledge. To use Hume's terminology: it is never a... ...Freud revolutionized the field (though, at first, his reputation was limited to the German-speaking parts of the dying Habsburg Empire). He dispense... ...ibido and Thanatos (the life and death forces), instincts (Triebe, or "drives", in German) or drives, the somatic-erotogenic phases of psychic (per... ...th hard-edged scientists and thinkers in the "softer" disciplines are influenced by contemporary values, mores, events, and interpellations. The di...

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...versity is an equal opportunity university. Contents Preface to the First German Edition................................................................ ...e: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by Bernard Shaw Preface to the First German Edition IN READING through this German version of my book in the Man... ...ave therefore inserted a new section in which I show how the revolutionary history of West- ern Europe from the Liberal explosion of 1848 to the con- ... ...induce some readers of the original English text to read the book again in German. For some time to come, indeed, I shall have to refer En- glish read... ...German speaking peoples political criticisms which occasionally reflect on contemporary authorities with a European reputation for sensitiveness. And ... ...usness can follow it breathlessly, seeing in it the whole tragedy of human history and the whole horror of the di- lemmas from which the world is shri... ...l, moral, talented people who devise and adminis- ter States and Churches. History shows us only one order higher than the highest of these: namely, t... ...-Demo- cratic party was lost, were trying to find the path by the light of contemporary history instead of vainly consulting the oracle in the pages o...

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...1813-20 CHAPTER I SEVEN YEARS HAD PASSED. The storm-tossed sea of European history had subsided within its shores and seemed to have become calm. But ... ... are unknown to us) continued to operate. Though the surface of the sea of history seemed motionless, the movement of humanity went on as unceasingly ... ...oms and displace- ment of peoples was in course of preparation. The sea of history was not driven spasmodically from shore to shore as previously. It ... ...m is not at once repre- sented as a great deed. The most suitable fete the Germans can devise for him is a celebration of Jena and Auerstadt. Not only... ... collar, toward the place where Pierre sat. The conversation turned on the contemporary gossip about those in power, in which most people see the chie... ...ble and sharp comments on what Pierre told them. “One used to have to be a German—now one must dance with Tatawinova and Madame Kwudener, and wead Eck... ...y, modern history has postulated its own aims-the wel- fare of the French, German, or English people, or, in its high- est abstraction, the welfare an... ...power, the existence of power is proved both by history and by observ- ing contemporary events. Whenever an event occurs a man appears or men appear, ... ...cerning the part played by free will in the general affairs of humanity. A contemporary event seems to us to be indubitably the doing of all the known...

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...Euripides, Shakespear, Goethe, Ibsen, and T olstoy, not to mention our own contemporary playwrights, is as much in place in Mr Redford’s office as a p... ...the chief officer of the Queen of England’s household. Story number two. A German officer finds himself in an inn with a French lady who has wounded h... ...all, and that when he was once satisfied that the ill-conducted hero was a German and not an English officer, he passed the play with- out studying it... ...refuse to re- new their license at the end of the year; and nothing in the history of popular art is more amazing than the improve- ment in music-hall... ...n, even though Isolde be both fourteen stone and forty, as she often is in Germany. Indeed, it needed no Wagner to convince the public of this. The vo... ...ild- hood by their father’s profession. These critics must know, too, from history if not from experience, that women as un- scrupulous as Mrs Warren ...

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...d characteristic occupations of the class in this mature phase of its life history are in form very much the same as in its earlier days. These occupa... ...t to be passed over that it is precisely among these middle classes of the Germanic culture, with their strong surviving sense of the patriarchal prop... ...oncerned in the life process or that are intimately bound up with the life history of the particular racial stock. The varying degrees of ease with wh... ...aps in great measure a selective conservation of ethnic types. In the life history of any community whose popula- tion is made up of a mixture of dive... ...tory and the peaceable variants of the several types. This con- ception of contemporary human evolution is not indispens- able to the discussion. The ... ...nd we have, particularly, that bizarre survival of bellicose chivalry, the German student duel. In the lower or spurious leisure class of the delinque... ...h lends so much of color to the Icelandic sagas specifically, and to early Germanic folk-legends, is an illustration of this sense of an extra-physica...

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...s old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in civilized history, until the fame of its grassy meadows and its fish attracted settle... ...allowance. The story is current, at any rate, though I believe that strict history will not bear it out, that the only bridge ever carried away on the... ... associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history. “Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, n... ...e of the Russians and the Chinese, or even French phi losophy and much of German criticism. Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance t... ...less of cunning, more of oracle. It is Apollo shining in your face. O rare Contemporary, let us have far off heats. Give us the subtler, the heavenlie... ...glish poetry for a single memorable verse inspired by these themes. Nor is Germany to be excepted, though her philological industry is indirectly serv... ... man can be heard so little way, and we are not now within ear shot of any contemporary . The wood cutters have here felled an ancient pine forest, a... ...able to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be som... ...ge him still. In the Saxon poetry extant, in the earliest English, and the contemporary Scottish poetry, there is less to remind the reader of the rud...

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...an be got out of the hospital or nursing home alive, though the subsequent history of the case may be such as would make an honest surgeon vow never t... ...ave made this claim; and honest and reasonable men, led by the stron- gest contemporary minds, have repudiated it and exposed its crude rascality. Fro... ...ecause it is the custom to eat veal and insist on its being white; or as a German purveyor nails a goose to a board and stuffs it with food because fa... ...nd naval forces. It is silly that an Englishman should be more afraid of a German soldier than of a British disease germ, and should clamor for more b... ...us it makes us paupers, though they never say that if the State fights the Germans for us it makes us cowards. Fortunately, when a habit of thought is...

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...lost correction of the spur, Since to the bridle thou hast set thine hand, O German Albert! who abandon’st her, That is grown savage and unmanageable,... ...nte often recreated his spirits wearied by severe studies.” See Dr. Burney’s History of Music, vol. ii. c. iv. p. 322. Milton has a fine allusion to t... ...o si posa. A line taken by Tasso, G. L. c. x. st. 56. v. 76. Sordello.]The history of Sordello’s life is wrapt in the obscurity of romance. That he ... ... which are Caesar’s.” The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory 102 v. 98. O German Albert!] The Emperor Albert I. succeeded Adolphus in 1298, and was... ... 101. Thy sire.] The Emperor Rodolph, too intent on increasing his power in Germany to give much of his thoughts to Italy, “the garden of the empire.... ...lessed.] Matt. v. 6. v. 14. Aquinum’s bard.] Juvenal had celebrated his contemporary Statius, Sat. vii. 82; though some critics imagine that th... ...d away on horseback, but failing, was overtaken and slain, A.D. 1308. The contemporary annalist, after relating at length the circumstances of his...

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...n all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology! I know of no reading of another’s experience s... ...y surprise those of my readers who are somewhat acquainted with its actual history; it would certainly astonish those who know nothing about it. I wil... ...ozen in the town who own their farms free and clear. If you would know the history of these homesteads, inquire at the bank where they are mortgaged. ... ...Providence,” speaking of the first settlers of this town, with whom he was contemporary, tells us that “they burrow them selves in the earth for thei... ... dishes, five; and reduce other things in pro portion. Our life is like a German Confederacy, made up of petty states, with its boundary forever fluc... ...p of petty states, with its boundary forever fluctuat ing, so that even a German cannot tell you how it is bounded at any moment. The nation itself, ... ... and outlandish spotted salamander, a trace of Egypt and the Nile, yet our contemporary. When I paused to lean on my hoe, these sounds and sights I he...

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... the ground that the Catherine it represents is not Great Catherine, but the Catherine whose gallantries provide some of the lightest pages of modern history. Great Catherine, it is said, was the Catherine whose diplomacy, whose campaigns and conquests, whose plans of Liberal reform, whose correspondence with Grimm and Voltaire enabled her to cut such a magnificent figure ...

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...Catherine whose gallantries pro- vide some of the lightest pages of modern history. Great Catherine, it is said, was the Catherine whose diplomacy, wh... ...played this mischievous kind of political chess had any notion of the real history of their own times, or of the real forces that were moulding Europe... ... for nearly half a century, not as a Russian, but as a highly domesticated German lady whose household routine was not at all so unlike that of Queen ... ...was the motive of a play that will leave the reader as ignorant of Russian history as he may be now before he has turned the page. Nor is the sketch o... ...s. The consequence is that the great actor, instead of putting pressure on contemporary au- thors to supply him with heroic parts, falls back on the S... ...most with the still abler Empress Catherine II, who is not a Russian but a German, by no means barbarous or in- temperate in her personal habits. She ... ... ians, drunken pigs. Catherine does not know it; but we are. Catherine’s a German. But I have given her a Russian heart [he is about to slap himself a...

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...of which singularly enough constitutes a distinct and important era in the history of Florence. His youth was concurrent with the greatness of Florenc... ...to Lorenzo’s grandson that he dedicates “The Prince.” Machiavelli, in his “History of Florence,” gives us a pic- ture of the young men among whom his ... ...of the Italian states, which in 1507 were controlled by France, Spain, and Germany, with results that have lasted to our day; we are concerned with th... ...received a commission at the instance of Cardinal de’ Medici to write the “History of Florence,” a task which occupied him until 1525. His return to p... ...eece, would by an Elizabethan be correctly rendered “entertain,” and every contemporary reader would understand what was meant by saying that “Rome en... ... the knowledge of the actions of great men, acquired by long experience in contemporary affairs, and a continual study of antiq- uity; which, having r... ...has his town well fortified, and is not hated by his people. The cities of Germany are absolutely free, they own but little country around them, and t... ... without any defence. For if it had been defended by proper valour, as are Germany, Spain, and France, either this invasion would not have made the gr...

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...ed by all this, I worked listlessly and ineffectively . I was writ- ing “A History of Railways”; I had to read a great number of Russian and foreign b... ...irs to my own storey. An hour later I was sitting at my table, writing my “History of Railways,” and the starving peasants did not now hinder me from ... ...ation or a minute of proceedings. Another point: I find it easier to write German or English than to write Russian. As regards my present manner of li... ...walk along the road which I have known for thirty years, and which has its history for me. Here is the big grey house with the chemist’s shop; at this... ...my own entrance the door is flung wide open, and I am met by my colleague, contemporary, and namesake, the porter Nikolay . As he lets me in he clears... ...e infallibil- ity of science, and, above all, of everything written by the Germans. He believes in himself, in his preparations; knows the object of l... ...to talk. ‘Such doings, young man,’ said I. ‘I’ve read,’ said I, ‘that some German —I’ve forgotten his name — has created from the human brain a new ki...

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...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents I. HISTORY ...................................................................... ................................ 315 5 Emerson Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson HISTORY There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all: And whe... ...nd, and Plato’s brain, Of Lord Christ’s heart, and Shakspeare’s strain. I. HISTORY T here is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an in... ...ch that fact or series belongs. The primeval world,—the Fore-World, as the Germans say, —I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with resea... ...s sit in their clouds, and from age to age prattle to each other and to no contemporary. Well assured that their speech is intelligible and the most n... ... only a lyrist but a poet, we were obliged to confess that he is plainly a contemporary, not an eternal man. He does not stand out of our low limitati... ...y or Fashion, which seems so fair and picturesque to those who look at the contemporary facts for science or for entertainment, is not equally pleasan... ...k of Webster. We conceive dis- tinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German ge- nius, and it is not the less real that perhaps we should not mee... ...iad, the Hamlet, the Doric column, the Roman arch, the Gothic minster, the German anthem, when they are ended, the master casts behind him. How sinks ...

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...h as to the number and value, of perhaps a hundred to one. We take in, not Germany alone, but France and Italy; not the Schlegels and Schellings, but ... ...terary fame in his own country; and even determined his subsequent private history, for they brought him into contact with the Duke of Weimar; in conn... ...r years. Their effects over Europe at large were not less striking than in Germany. ‘It would be difficult,’ observes a writer on this subject, ‘to na... ...y ware; and though the epidemic, after a long course of years, subsided in Germany, it reappeared with various modi- fications in other countries, and... ...owever, was not realized in actual composition till a calmer period of his history. Of this early harsh and crude, yet fervid and genial period, Werte... .... We are here looking at the work chiefly as a docu- ment for the writer’s history; and in this point of view, it certainly seems, as contrasted with ... ... judgment was rather censorious; and he destroyed even the little faith in contemporary writers which I cherished within me, by unfeeling remarks, whi...

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... Laurent Valla, Rabelais had retranslated into Latin the first book of the History. That translation unfortunately is lost, as so many other of his sc... ...ay. Why should we be more fastidious and severe than they were? Their high contemporary appreciation gives much food for thought. 12 Gargantua & Pant... ...nial. On the other hand, Rabelais has been several times trans- lated into German. In the present century Regis published at Leipsic, from 1831 to 184... ...t it would be none the less curious were some one thoroughly familiar with German to translate Fischart for us, or at least, by long extracts from him... ...s, or at least, by long extracts from him, give an idea of the vagaries of German taste when it thought it could do better than Rabelais. It is danger... ...Gargantua and Pantagruel were before the sixteenth century. In a book of a contemporary of Rabelais, the Legende de Pierre Faifeu by the Angevin, Char... ...t. It is the adventures of Baldo, son of Guy de Montauban, the very lively history of his youth, his trial, imprisonment and deliverance, his journey ... ...egyrist has made them patterns of all the virtues. In reality it is both a history and in some sort a romance; especially is it a collec- tion of exam...

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..., is out of fashion; and we are in that other phase, famil- iarized by the history of the French Revolution, in which the primary assumption is that t... ... the story of the Committee in greater detail, partly as a contribution to history; partly be- cause, like most true stories, it is more amusing than ... ... by taking its work uppishly and care- lessly. When it discovered that the contemporary drama, licensed by the Lord Chamberlain, included plays which ... ...s power which is understood, as it is meant to be understood, to represent Germany. The lesson taught by the play is the danger of invasion and the ne... ...ortly afterwards he refused to license another play in which the fear of a German invasion was ridiculed. The German press drew the inevitable inferen... ... press drew the inevitable inference that the Lord Chamberlain was an anti-German alarmist, and that his opinions were a reflection of those prevailin... ...dy of inspectors would have become a police des moeurs. Those who know the history of such police forces on the conti- nent will understand how imposs...

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...nd your mother is already in the drawing-room,” he exclaimed in his strong German accent. Then he crossed over to me, sat down at my feet, and took hi... ...ed me kindly what the matter was, Had I had a disagreeable dream? His good German face and the sym- pathy with which he sought to know the cause of my... ...r- man pamphlet (minus a cover) on Manuring Cabbages in Kitchen-Gardens, a History of the Seven Years’ War (bound in parchment and burnt at one corner... ...ch paid no attention to this rudeness, but went, 9 Tolstoy as usual, with German politeness to kiss Mamma’s hand, She drew herself up, shook her head... ...his predominant thought at the moment, Then he set us to learn a lesson in history, and sat down near the window. His face did not look so depressed n... ..., Boileau, Moliere, Montaigne, and Fenelon. Like- wise he had gleaned much history from Segur, and much of the old classics from French translations o... ...m French translations of them; but for mathematics, natural philosophy, or contemporary lit- erature he cared nothing whatever. However, he knew how t...

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...oy; and the latter, completely disil lusioned both in regard to his great contemporary and to the literary world of St. Petersburg, shook off the dus... ... after resigning his commission in the army, went abroad on a tour through Germany, Switzerland, and France. In France his growing aversion from capit... ...ss was stifled by the most rigid censorship. In this lamentable manner the history of Russia’s internal misrule and disorder has continued to repeat i... ...eography, and science. Little leisure remained for the service of Art. The history of Tolstoy as a man of letters forms a separate page of his biograp... ... with it, not because it demonstrated Lermontov’s position in the literary history of Russia, but because it pointed out the moral aims which under l... ... gloves, and was late. So I did not dance the mazurka with her, but with a German girl to whom I had previously paid a little attention; but I am afra...