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The reason passes, like the heart, through certain epochs and
transitions, but its development is not so often portrayed. Men
seem to have been satisfied with unfolding the passions in their
extremes, their aberration, and their results, without considering
how closely they are bound up with the intellectual constitution of
the individual. Degeneracy in morals roots in a one-sided and
wavering philosophy, doubly dangerous, because it blinds the
beclouded intellect with an appearance of correctness, truth, and
conviction, which places it less under the restraining influence of
man's instinctive moral sense. On the other hand, an enlightened
understanding ennobles the feelings, -the heart must be formed by
the head. The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase
of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion
of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to
make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are
willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed
then. Under these circumstances it may not be unprofitable to call
attention to certain periods of the awakening and progress of the
reason, to place in their proper light certain truths and errors,
closely connected with morals, and calculated to be a source of
happiness or misery, and, at all events, to point out the hidden
shoals on which the reason of man has so often suffered shipwreck.
Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into
extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even
of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil
wisdom
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) was a German
poet, dramatist, philosopher and historian. Schiller wrote
philosophical papers on aesthetics and ethics. He developed the
concept of Schone Seele which translates to beautiful soul.
Schiller said that a human being whose emotions have been educated
by his reason view beauty and inclination as no longer in conflict
with each other. Beauty is not merely sensual but moral as well.
Schiller is considered to be Germany's most important classical
playwright. He created new forms, such as the melodrama and the
bourgeois tragedy. His most famous works are Love and Intrigue
(1784), Don Carlos (1787), The Minister (1796), The Death of
Wallenstein (1799), The Piccolomini (1800) and Mary Stuart (1800).
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) was a German
poet, dramatist, philosopher and historian. Schiller wrote
philosophical papers on aesthetics and ethics. He developed the
concept of Schone Seele which translates to beautiful soul.
Schiller said that a human being whose emotions have been educated
by his reason view beauty and inclination as no longer in conflict
with each other. Beauty is not merely sensual but moral as well.
The Ghost Seer or the Apparitionist and Sport of Destiny begins
with these words. I am about to relate an adventure which to many
will appear incredible, but of which I was in great part an
eye-witness. The few who are acquainted with a certain political
event will, if indeed these pages should happen to find them alive,
receive a welcome solution thereof. And, even to the rest of my
readers, it will be, perhaps, important as a contribution to the
history of the deception and aberrations of the human intellect.
The boldness of the schemes which malice is able to contemplate and
to carry out must excite astonishment, as must also the means of
which it can avail itself to accomplish its aims. Clear,
unvarnished truth shall guide my pen; for, when these pages come
before the public, I shall be no more, and shall therefore never
learn their fate.
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