TY - JOUR
AU - Fryer, C. E.
AB - Reviews of Books Lavater's grievous disappointment, in Friedrich Stolberg's ecstatic re­ cantations, culminating in the fanatical ode hurled against the "Western Huns". The second half of the book is given over to a consideration of the greatest names of German Classicism and Romanticism. Wieland is shown to have followed the whole course of the Revolution from the Iltats Generaux to the eighteenth of Brumaire with running commentaries of remarkable objectivity.and insight. Herder, although hampered in the expression of his political views by his intimate relation to the Weimar court, appears as essentially a sympathizer with the republic. The ef­ fect of Goethe's temperamental abhorrence of mob rule and of violent upheaval upon his attitude toward the events beyond the Rhine is traced from the Grosskophta to the Naturliche Tochter. Schiller's attitude is characterized as one of political resignation, coupled with the belief that no better service could be rendered to the cause of true freedom than by the cultivation of man's highest spiritual qualities. In striking contrast with this political aloofness of the two greatest German poets, Kant and Fichte appear as open and resolute supporters of the republican ideals proclaimed by the Revolution; although Kant's advanced age and 
TI - The Anti-Slavery Movement in England: a Study in English Humanitarianism. By Frank J. Klingberg, Ph.D., Professor of History, Southern Branch, Univers ...
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/33.3.644
DA - 1928-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-anti-slavery-movement-in-england-a-study-in-english-YitxKnfSF0
SP - 644
EP - 646
VL - 33
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
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