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Updated: June 27, 2025
The final fact of human nature is emotion, crystallising itself in thought and language, externalising itself in action and art. 'What, said Novalis, 'are thoughts but pale dead feelings? Admitting this even in part, we cannot deny to music an emotional content of some kind.
The concept of individuality became of the highest importance for Schleiermacher's ethics, as well as for his philosophy of religion; and by his high appreciation of it he ranges himself with Leibnitz, Herder, Goethe, and Novalis. Now two sides may be distinguished both in regard to that which the individual is and to that which he ought to accomplish.
Only on the principle which here receives its proof, that man has something in him of God, that the norm of the true holds good throughout, can he know or care anything about divinity. “It takes a god to discern a god,” profoundly wrote Novalis.
Logic, useful as it is, as a help to reasoning, is but the dead body of thought, as Novalis designates it, and has no place in the inspired regions where the prophets and the bards reside. Carlyle's fame, however, had not reached its culminating point when Emerson visited him.
Schulembourg philosophically accounted for many appearances, but he was a magnetiser, and his explanations were more marvellous than the portents. 'And you, Mr. Walstein, said Madame de Schulembourg, 'what is your opinion? 'I am willing to yield to any faith that distracts my thoughts from the burthen of daily reality, replied Walstein. 'You would just suit Mr. Novalis, then, observed Mr.
There was enough in the Middle Ages to have fascinated him; and could he, like some romantic Novalis, have once penetrated thither, and tasted the fruit, he would have found it a lotus, and would have wished never to depart. His soul would have clung to church architecture, under which term may be included all the religious, political, poetical, moral, and practical life of the Middle Ages.
We may be converted by the Japanese, for all that we know, and the Japanese methods of taking leave of life may become fashionable among us. Nay, did not Novalis suggest that the whole race of men would at last become so disgusted with their impotence, that they would extinguish themselves by a simultaneous act of suicide, and make room for a better order of beings?
Indeed, the Schlegels may be said to have been without a sense for nature; in Tieck there is a great discrepancy between the man, his beliefs, and his practise, and Novalis' nature-feeling is not attached to any specific place. But Brentano loves the Rhine, and Eichendorff's landscape is genuinely Silesian.
"Bending before men," if it is not to be a mere empty grimace, better dispensed with than practiced, is Hero-worship, a recognition that there does dwell in that presence of our brother something divine; that every created man, as Novalis said, is a "revelation in the Flesh." They were Poets too, that devised all those graceful courtesies which make life noble!
The Hellenism of Goethe was a protest against this movement, at once in its intellectual and its literary forms, the Romanticism of Tieck and Novalis, the cultured pietism of Lammenais and Chateaubriand. Yet in Faust Goethe attempted a reconciliation of Hellas and the Middle Age, and the work is not only the supreme literary achievement of the century, but its greatest prophetic book.
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