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Excerpt from Friedrich Schiller's Works, Vol. 1 of 2: Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays For it is in their works of art that the nations have imprinted their favourite thoughts and their richest intuitions, and not unfrequently the fine arts are the only means by which we can penetrate into the secrets of their wisdom and the mysteries of their religion. It is made a reproach to art that it produces its effects by appearance and illusion; but can it be established that appearance is objectionable 7 The phenomena of nature and the acts of human life are nothing more than appearances, and are yet looked upon as constituting a true reality; for this reality must be sought for beyond the objects perceived immediately by the sense, the substance and speech and principle underlying all things manifesting itself in time and space through these real existences, but preserving its absolute existence in itself. Now, the very special object and aim of art is to represent the action and development of this universal force. In nature this force or principle appears confounded with particular interests and transitory circumstances, mixed up with what is arbitrary in the passions and in indi v

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Author

Friedrich Schiller [Schiller, Friedrich]

Publisher

Forgotten Books

Published

1805

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction