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Harvard Classics, Vol. 32
By beauty the sensuous man is led to form and to thought; by beauty the spiritual man is brought back to matter and restored to the world of sense.
Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. Letter XVIII.
J. C. Friedrich
von Schiller

Harvard Classics, Vol. 32

Literary and Philosophical Essays

French, German and Italian

The 13 works of 7 continental authors span 3 centuries of philosophy from Montaigne to Schiller and literary criticism from Sainte-Beuve and Mazzini.

Bibliographic Record

Contents

NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Introductory Note
The Author to the Reader
That We Should Not Judge of Our Happiness Until after Our Death
That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to Die
Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson
Of Friendship
Of Bookes
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Introductory Note
Translated by E. Lee
Montaigne
What Is a Classic?
Ernest Renan
Introductory Note
The Poetry of the Celtic Races. Translated by W. G. Hutchison
Introduction
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Introductory Note
Translated by W. G. Hutchison
The Education of The Human Race
J. C. Friedrich von Schiller
Introductory Note
Letters upon the Æsthetic Education of Man
Letter I
Letter II
Letter III
Letter IV
Letter V
Letter VI
Letter VII
Letter VIII
Letter IX
Letter X
Letter XI
Letter XII
Letter XIII
Letter XIV
Letter XV
Letter XVI
Letter XVII
Letter XVIII
Letter XIX
Letter XX
Letter XXI
Letter XXII
Letter XXIII
Letter XXIV
Letter XXV
Letter XXVI
Letter XXVII
Immanuel Kant
Introductory Note
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
Translated by T. K. Abbott
Preface
First Section: Transition from the Common Rational Knowledge of Morality to the Philosophical
Second Section: Transition from Popular Moral Philosophy to the Metaphysic of Morals
Third Section: Transition from Metaphysic of Morals to the Critique of Pure Practical Reason
Giuseppe Mazzini
Introductory Note
Byron and Goethe