now with peculiar force and subtlety.
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distinguished a man of letters.
me the honour to select the maxims on Science, but he was further
whom, for most readers, selection is so necessary as it is with Goethe;
conduct and method in a manner admitting of no mistake or uncertainty.
is plain, I think, that they are below the others in value and interest;
endorse, or to regard as in any way commensurate with Goethe's genius;
the name of their author.
should be sorry to place at the foot of any of these pages. I have
hundred and eighty on Science.
speak of its nature and value.
appeared only in the last ten, while some are posthumous.
been incorporated with two treatises on branches of that subject.
_Nachgelassene Werke_ in 1833, or in the quarto edition of 1836.
put the work before his own public in an orderly and convenient form.
the waters of oblivion, which sooner or later overwhelm all magazines.
Meanwhile I put forward this version.
the Chancellor von Müller, he could not remember having composed it;
that he can hardly be forced to yield the credit of it to another.
been written on Goethe, it is very much better to read Goethe himself.
testimony to his wonderful anticipations of later theories.
writer whatever, even though it be Montaigne or Bacon or Shakespeare;
to-day may easily become the poisonous suggestion of to-morrow.
by belittling human endeavour. Goethe shows us a more excellent way.
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