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insisted upon; and the very dogmatic opinions asserted; must be examined。 At no time so much as

in our own; have such general principles and notions been advanced; or with greater assurance。 If

in days gone by; history seems to present itself as a struggle of passions; in our time — though

displays of passion are not wanting — it exhibits partly a predominance of the struggle of notions

assuming the authority of principles; partly that of passions and interests essentially subjective; but

under the mask of such higher sanctions。 The pretensions thus contended for as legitimate in the

name of that which has been stated as the ultimate aim of Reason; pass accordingly; for absolute

aims; — to the same extent as Religion; Morals; Ethics。 Nothing; as before remarked; is now more

mon than the plaint that the ideals which imagination sets up are not realised — that these

glorious dreams are destroyed by cold actuality。 These Ideals — which in the voyage of life

founder on the rocks of hard reality — may be in the first instance only subjective; and belong to

the idiosyncrasy of the individual; imagining himself the highest and wisest。 Such do not properly

belong to this category。 For the fancies which the individual in his isolation indulges; cannot be the

model for universal reality; just as universal law is not designed for the units of the mass。 These as

such may; in fact; find their interests decidedly thrust into the background。 But by the term

“Ideal;” we also understand the ideal of Reason; of the Good; of the True。 Poets; as e。g。

Schiller; have painted such ideals touchingly and with strong emotion; and with the deeply

melancholy conviction that th

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