The Life and Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; From the German of Adolf Stahr. by E. P. Evans - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866. Excerpt: ... GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING. BOOK FOURTEENTH THE EDUCATION OF THE HUMAN RACE--ERNEST AND FALK, OR CONVERSATIONS FOR FREEMASONS. 15 (345) CHAPTER I. Lessing's Attitude To The Illumtnists. MOKE and more solitary became life to Lessing as the end drew near. For not less alone and isolated than his personal seclusion at Wolfenbiittel was his mental situation respecting all those important lines of thought belonging to his age, with which he had gradually come into collision. He was separated from the philosophers of his time by his relation to Spinoza---a relation that remained an incomprehensible mystery even to his nearest friends, and for which they could perceive no deeper motive than mere whim and caprice. Lessing was the first who recognized the philosophy of that profound thinker, at a time when it was a horror and scandal to all pious souls, and as good as unknown even to professional philosophers, and thus helped to prepare the great revolution in thought which was destined, a few decades later, to culminate in modern German philosophy. With Spinoza he united the study of Leibnitz, whose theories he even undertook to unfold in a work of his own--a plan which, like so many others, was frustrated by theological controversies. Still more remarkable, however, was the relation in which the great enlightener of the eighteenth century, the man who exhibits collected into a focus the entire humane and liberal culture of his age, stood to those who, because they regarded themselves as enlighteners by profession, had thought to count him as one of their number. These were soon to discover that Lessing, instead of making them Ills confederates and allies in the great conflict resulting from the Fragments, turned against them, and repeatedly defended the orthodoxy ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866. Excerpt: ... GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING. BOOK FOURTEENTH THE EDUCATION OF THE HUMAN RACE--ERNEST AND FALK, OR CONVERSATIONS FOR FREEMASONS. 15 (345) CHAPTER I. Lessing's Attitude To The Illumtnists. MOKE and more solitary became life to Lessing as the end drew near. For not less alone and isolated than his personal seclusion at Wolfenbiittel was his mental situation respecting all those important lines of thought belonging to his age, with which he had gradually come into collision. He was separated from the philosophers of his time by his relation to Spinoza---a relation that remained an incomprehensible mystery even to his nearest friends, and for which they could perceive no deeper motive than mere whim and caprice. Lessing was the first who recognized the philosophy of that profound thinker, at a time when it was a horror and scandal to all pious souls, and as good as unknown even to professional philosophers, and thus helped to prepare the great revolution in thought which was destined, a few decades later, to culminate in modern German philosophy. With Spinoza he united the study of Leibnitz, whose theories he even undertook to unfold in a work of his own--a plan which, like so many others, was frustrated by theological controversies. Still more remarkable, however, was the relation in which the great enlightener of the eighteenth century, the man who exhibits collected into a focus the entire humane and liberal culture of his age, stood to those who, because they regarded themselves as enlighteners by profession, had thought to count him as one of their number. These were soon to discover that Lessing, instead of making them Ills confederates and allies in the great conflict resulting from the Fragments, turned against them, and repeatedly defended the orthodoxy ...
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