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(1) GUSTAV FREYTAG is best known in England as a novelist, and chiefly as the writer of that charming story of German commercial life, “Soil und Haben,” which has been translated and published in English as “Debit and Credit.” But Freytag was more than novelist. He was also poet, dramatist, and thinker. Born in 1819, and living until 1895, his life—as Dr. Schridde remarks—shows us the very heart-beat of the century, a century of tremendous importance in the history of his country. Politically he was strongly for Bismarckian unification, with Prussian supremacy; philosophically he may roughly be classed as Hegelian, though less abstract, and thus he is also religious, for his “metaphysic transfigures the desiderated calmness, the white light of Reason, into religious faith.” Dr. Schridde gives a good account of the influence upon Freytag of Kant, Fichte, Humboldt, Schelling, and Hegel, and is thoroughly in sympathy with his subject, though not refraining from criticism of weak places.
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(5) Zwei Vorträge zur Naturphilosophie.
By Hans Driesch. Pp. iv + 38. (Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.) Price 80 pfennigs.
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(1) Gustav Freytags Kultur- und Geschichtspsychologie: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Geschichtsphilosophie (2) Lessings Briefwechsel mit Mendelssohn und Nicolai über das Trauerspiel (3) Hegels Asthetik im Verhältnis zu Schiller (4) Uber Christian Wolff's Ontologie (5) Zwei Vorträge zur Naturphilosophie. Nature 84, 294 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084294a0
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