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Gard had been able to warm up small sympathy for the modern military authors and iron and blood philosophers whom he found in vogue in Germany. On the other hand, cold water had unexpectedly been thrown on the retreating Goethes and Schillers whom he had come to venerate with grammar and lexicon.

The Shelleys and Rousseaus there's no holding, of course; they will run right into it; but the Goethes oh, no, they keep their secret. Indeed, I hold it as probable that the vast majority of men far in advance of their times have always held their tongues consistently, save for mere common babble, on Lord Chesterfield's principle that "Wise men never say."

Tomaschek, Schiller in seinem Verhaeltnisse zur Wissenschaft; von der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien gekroente Preisschrift, Wien, 1862. Janssen, Schiller als Historiker, 2nd edition, Freiburg, 1879. Philosophical Writings. Harnack, Die klassische Aesthetik der Deutschen, Wuerdigung der kunsttheoretischen Arbeiten Schillers, Goethes und ihrer Freunde, Leipzig, 1892.

'Does it not raise strange longings in you, said Claude, 'to gaze out yonder over the infinite calm, and then to remember that beyond it lies America! the new world; the future world; the great Titan- baby, who will be teeming with new Athens and Londons, with new Bacons and Shakspeares, Newtons and Goethes, when this old worn-out island will be what?

This applies completely to men like Burns, Byron, Heine, and Carlyle, less to the Miltons, Shakespeares, and Goethes of the world. The crisis of bereavement, which promised to bind the husband and wife more closely together, brought to an end a dispute in which for once Mrs. Carlyle had her way.

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