Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions

About this eBook

Author

Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805

Title

Goethe and Schiller's Xenions

Original Publication

Chicago, IL: The Open Court Publishing Co., 1915.

Credits

Markus Brenner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures

Subject

German literature -- 18th century -- Translations into English

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 76691

Release Date

August 17, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.GOETHE AND SCHILLER’S XENIONS
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.Table of Contents.
5. 5.THE HISTORY AND POETICAL FORM OF THE XENIONS. — The History of the Xenions. — The Elegiac Distich.
6. 6.INTRODUCTORY. — Our Purpose. — Vorsatz — Our Method. — Das Mittel. — The Distich. — Das Distichon. — Boisterous. — Uebermüthig. — Our Common Fate. — Das gemeinsame Schicksal. — The Last Martyr. — Der letzte Märtyrer.
7. 7.SOUL AND WORLD. — Our Own. — Das eigne Ideal. — Harmony. — Schöne Individualität. — The Key. — Der Schlüssel. — Worth and Value. — Das Werthe und Würdige. — Nature and Reason. — Der Genius. — Oneness. — Schönheit. — Various Destinies. — Die verschiedene Bestimmung. — The Immutable. — Das Unwandelbare. — The Law of Nature. — Das Naturgesetz. — Zeus to Heracles. — Zeus zu Herkules. — Folly and Insanity. — Aberwitz und Wahnwitz. — Motives and Action. — Inneres und Aeusseres. — Baal Priests. — Baalspfaffen. — Salvation. — Die idealische Freiheit. — Human Life. — Menschliches Wirken. — Immortality. — Unsterblichkeit. — Indestructible. — Unsterblich. — God, World, and Man. — Gott, Welt und Mensch.
8. 8.CRITICAL AND LITERARY. — The Poet Addresses His Muse. — An die Muse. — To Incompetent Reviewers. — Die Unberufenen. — Wolf’s Homer. — Der Wolfische Homer. — Intellectual Aristocracy. — Geistige Aristokratie. — Bad Times. — Böse Zeiten. — Mutual Admiration Society. — Auf zwei Sudler, die einander loben. — Dilettante. — Dilettant. — To One Author. — An ⁕. — To Another Author. — An ⁕⁕. — Wanted. — Sachen so gesucht werden. — Artifice. — Der Kunstgriff. — A Discussion. — Das philosophische Gespräch.
9. 9.SATIRICAL AND PERSONAL. — The Great Moment. — Der Zeitpunkt. — To Some Critics. — An die Herren H. J. K. — The Vinculum. — Das Verbindungsmittel. — Present Generation. — Jetzige Generation. — To Those in Authority. — An die Oberen. — Questionable Investigation. — Kritische Studien. — The Spirit and the Letter. — Der Geist und der Buchstabe. — The Sense of a Committee. — Gelehrte Gesellschaft. — Taste in a Watering Place. — Gesundbrunnen zu ⁕⁕⁕. — Sample of Modern Criticism. — Probe moderner Kritik. — Nicolai’s Book on the Source of the Danube. [8] — Nikolai’s Buch über die Quellen der Donau. — The Collector. — Formalphilosophie. — Crudity. — Das grobe Organ. — Nicolai’s Motto. — Das Motto. — A Publisher. — Verleger von P** Schriften. — In Comparison with Socrates. — Sokrates. — To Certain Moralists. — An die Herren N. O. P. — Martyrs. — Guter Rathschlag. — The Brothers Stolberg. [9] — Der Ersatz. — The Connoisseur. — Der Kenner. — Sentimentalists. — H. S. — The Prophet. — Der Prophet. — The Half-Bird. — Der Halbvogel. — Partisan Spirit. — Parteigeist.
10. 10.THE PHILOSOPHERS IN HADES. — The Poet Speaks. — Philosophen. — Aristotle. — Aristoteles. — Urgent. — Dringend. — Descartes. — Descartes. — My Answer. — Ich. — Spinoza. — Spinoza. — Berkeley. — Berkeley. — Leibniz. — Leibniz. — Kant. — Kant. — David Hume. — David Hume. — Fichte. — Fichte. — Reinhold. [15] — Reinhold. — My Answer. — Ich. — K. C. F. Schmidt, the Moral Philosopher. — K. Ch. F. Schmidt. — My Answer. — Ich. — Philosophy. — Die Philosophien.
11. 11.PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS. — For Sale. — Auction. — A Flaw. — Die Möglichkeit. — Empiricists. — Empiriker. — Theoreticians. — Theoretiker. — Last Refuge. — Letzte Zuflucht. — Natural Science and Transcendental [17] Philosophy. — Naturforscher und Transcendental-Philosophen. — The Same. — An die voreiligen Verbindungsstifter. — Kant and His Interpreters. — Kant und seine Ausleger. — Teleology. — Der Teleolog. — The Problem of Natural Law. [18] — Rechtsfrage. — Puffendorf’s Reply. — Puffendorf. — A Moral Problem. — Gewissensscrupel. — The Kantian’s Decision. — Decisum. — Human Knowledge. [21] — Menschliches Wissen. — Systems. — Die Systeme.
12. 12.SCIENCE AND ART. — Genius a Gift. — Wissenschaftliches Genie. — Truth and Form. — Mittheilung. — Creation. — Der Nachahmer. — Different Applications. — Wissenschaft. — The Sublime. — An die Astronomen. — Fiction and Truth. — Poet, Erdichtung und Wahrheit. — The Poet and the Naturalist. — Die Uebereinstimmung. — Trust in Scientific Truth. — Kolumbus. — Wisdom and Prudence. — Weisheit und Klugheit.
13. 13.WISDOM, MORALITY AND RELIGION. — The Highest. — Das Höchste. — Piety and Natural Science. — Natur und Vernunft. — Misrepresented. — Fratzen. — Philosopher and Bigot. — Der Philosoph und der Schwärmer. — Theological Hedonists. — Theophagen. — Friend and Enemy. — Freund und Feind. — Distinction. — Unterschied der Stände. — Perfection. — Aufgabe. — Goodness and Greatness. — Güte and Grösse. — The One Thing Needed. — Die Hauptsache. — Our Duty. — Pflicht für Jeden. — Difference in Oneness. — Wahrheit. — Repetition. — Wiederholung. — Utility. — Was nutzt. — Harm. — Was schadet. — Discipline. — Zucht. — Comfort. — Trost. — Analytical Truth-Seekers. — Analytiker. — Depreciated Coin. — Schlechte Münze. — Ritual. — Ceremoniendienst. — Mystics. — An die Mystiker. — Light and Color. — Licht und Farbe. — Not Irreligious. — Mein Glaube. — Our Father. — Der Vater.
14. 14.NOTES. — Notes.
15. 15.INDEX.
16. 16.Index.

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