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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING IT will appear from what we have already said that the so- called period of Enlightenment led out beyond itself at several points. It had, it is true, a certain tendency to consider itself perfect, and to look back with a pharisaical air on the darkness of preceding ages; but, at the same time, it was an age rich in possibilities, while for Germany it was a time of transition to a magnificent period of poetical and philosophical flower. The feeling that he lived in an age of transition was particularly strong in the leading spirit of this period. Although LESSING was on terms of personal friendship with Mendelssohn and Nicolai?a friendship in which the latter were by no means mere recipients?yet he was not so satisfied with the Enlightenment as they were. He felt himself a stranger to his age. Unsatisfied by the given forms of intellectual life he, like Socrates before him, emphasised the subjective, personal side of the striving after truth. The chase, he says, is better than the prey. In virtue of this accentuation of the personal feeling of striving and endeavouring he is the child of his age; while this same feeling enabled him to enter into other times and other standpoints more than was possible to the men of the Enlightenment and the Sentimentalists. The difference between different ages and standpoints comes out, of course, most clearly when we consider the results to which they led; while in the inner strivings, the subjective forces which produce the results greater kinship is to be found. Lessing's historical sense is connected with his favourite idea of the eternal striving. And that his eyes were turned so eagerly towards the future in the hope of what it held in store is still more closely connected with this idea. This is...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217662222
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 220
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217662226
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 399 gr


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