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Excerpt from Schiller Bastille of the intellect, he aided in building the temple of freedom. He had, it is true, a strong passion for ordered liberty, and with this he combined an equally strong sentiment of humanity. It was impossible for him to refrain from expressing these elements of his character in his works, and it is because he expressed them that his highest conceptions convey so powerful an impression of sincerity and truth. Moreover, his writ ings were one of the mightiest influences in arousing in the German mind a longing for a worthier national life and they still feed the flame which they helped to kindle. It is, however, to do Schiller extreme injustice to sup pose that he was nothing more than a proclaimer of new social and political doctrines. Even in his earliest dramas, which were the passionate utterance of long-sup pressed emotions, he did not altogether disregard the claims of art and in his mature labours these claims be came absolutely supreme. It was one of his fundamental principles that the artist is not directly concerned with the practical effect of his work; that he has to think only of its artistic quality. That a work of art, if its artistic quality be true, will indirectly stimulate man's moral nature by making him vividly conscious of his power and freedom, Schiller firmly maintained but he also maintained that to make this the end of art is to conflict with its essential tendencies and to defeat its proper aim. Hence when, in some of his chief dramas, he introduces the conceptions of humanity and freedom, he does so\because through them, with his special tem perament, he is able most directly and most powerfully to achieve the purpose of tragedy; and he determines the character of their expression in accordance with the0. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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