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Si sic omnia dixisset, the name of Schleiermacher would not have been so important as it is, for the thought of the “Monologen” is generally too impalpable and elusive, and the reader is often little helped or stimulated as the changes are rung on Freedom and Necessity, Time and Eternity, Outer and Inner. Besides, the style is often unnatural: poetic prose and too consciously so. Still, the book throws an interesting sidelight on Schleiermacher and his age—when “to be young was very heaven,” for the last monologue is a hymn to youth. This edition is most purposeful; its basis is the 1800 text with the original spelling, the variations of the 1810 and 1822 editions being given at the foot of each page. The introduction is sensible, and the bibliography ranges over the whole field of Schleiermacher's ethical philosophy. In the elaborate index the winnowed grain of the “Monologen” is neatly stored.
Friedrich Schleiermcher's Monologen—Kritische Ausgabe—Mit Einleitung, Bibliographie und Index.
By Friedrich Michael Schiele. Pp. xlvi + 130. (Leipzig: Dürr'sche Buchhandlung, 1902.) Price 1.40 marks.
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N., R. Friedrich Schleiermcher's Monologen—Kritische Ausgabe—Mit Einleitung, Bibliographie und Index . Nature 67, 534 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067534d0
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