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Hettner, with fine insight, points to the introduction to “Sebaldus Nothanker” as exhibiting the characteristic of this epoch of fiction. Speculation was the hero’s world, and in speculation lay for him the important things of life; he knew not the real world, hence speculation concerning it was his occupation.
For the early date at which Rousseau's power began to meet recognition, see D'Alembert to Voltaire, July 31, 1762. Louis xv. et xvi., p. 226. See above, vol. ii. p. 193. Hettner, III. iii., 2, p. 27, s.v. Herder. The suggestion of the speculation with which Lavater's name is most commonly associated, is to be found in the Emilius.
Hettner quotes a passage from the minor writings of Niebuhr, in which the historian compares Diderot with Petronius, as having both of them been honest and well-intentioned men, who in shameless times were carried towards cynicism by their deep contempt for the prevailing vice.
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