In this social relation, morality consists in the members behaving towards each other not as individuals - possessing an independent will; not as persons. The...

But it is the State which first presents subject-matter that is not only adapted to the prose of History, but involves the production of such history in the...

In the connection just referred to, between the languages of nations so widely separated, we have a result before us, which proves the diffusion of those...

It is an internal vital principle common to both that produces them synchronously. Family memorials, patriarchal traditions, have an interest confined to the family...

This view takes up the idea of the primitive paradisaical condition of man, which had been previously expanded by the Theologians, after their fashion, -...

He said this with intention, thinking it might suggest to the Emperor to give me the gold button which he only gives to those he wishes to make life-members of...

I had so far been very successful in keeping my ountenance; but I assure you, when I saw Prince etternich's get-up, my efforts to keep myself from bursting...

But the destinies of peoples and states, their interests, relations, and the complicated issue of their affairs, present quite another field. Rulers, Statesmen,...

He wound me up and I began singing; but everything went wrong. I sang snatches of well-known songs, cadences, trills, arpeggios, all _pêle- mêle_, until my...

We have already made the remark how the commencement of the history of Spirit must be conceived so as to be in harmony with its Idea - in its bearing on the...

The inorganic existence of Spirit — that of abstract Freedom - unconscious torpidity in respect to good and evil (and consequently to laws), or, if we please...

We owe to the interest which has occasioned these investigations, very much that is valuable; but this investigation bears direct testimony against itself for it...

Then I stopped short. How could I sing when I was convulsed with laughter? "Il faut la remonter," the showman said, with a resigned air, and, turning to the...

Universal history - as already demonstrated - shews the development of the consciousness of Freedom on the part of Spirit, and of the consequent realization of...

The periods - whether we suppose them to be centuries or millennia - that were passed by nations before history was written among them, - and which may have...

Consciousness alone is clearness; and is that alone for which God (or any other existence) can be revealed. In its true form - in absolute universality -...

The only consistent and worthy method which philosophical investigation can adopt, is to take up History - where Rationality begins to manifest itself in the...

Nations may have passed a long life before arriving at this their destination, and during this period, they may have attained considerable culture in some...

Philosophy is the unity of art and religion, as the simple intuition and substantial production of art are elevated to self-conscious thought through the...

Profound sentiments generally, such as that of love, as also religious intuition and its conceptions, are in themselves complete — constantly present and...

Among us, the so-called "higher criticism," which reigns supreme in the domain of philology, has also taken possession of our historical literature. This...

Legends, Ballad-stories, Traditions must be excluded from such original history. These are but dim and hazy forms of historical apprehension, and therefore...

The biblical account by no means justifies us in imagining a people, and an historical condition of such people, existing in that primitive form; still less...

The last species of Reflective History announces its fragmentary character on the very face of it. It adopts an abstract position; yet, since it takes general...

The revelation of the absolute, whose life is presented in a cycle of concrete shapes of representation, follows from its separation into independent parts with...

At my answer that I had never seen one, nor anything nearer to one than people going out with a gun and coming back with nothing else, he laughed and said, "I...

Divine Truth is imagined to have been equally manifest. It is even hinted, though left in some degree of obscurity, that in this primary condition men were in...

The spirit of the writer is quite other than that of the times of which he treats. Thus Livy puts into the mouths of the old Roman kings, consuls, and generals,...

And his aim is nothing more than the presentation to posterity of an image of events as clear as that which he himself possessed in virtue of personal...

It must be remarked that, when Reflective History has advanced to the adoption of general points of view, if the position taken is a true one, these are found...

Such branches of national life stand in close relation to the entire complex of a people's annals; and the question of chief importance in relation to our...

Such speeches as we find in Thucydides (for example) of which we can positively assert that they are not bona fide reports, would seem to make against our...

In the oration in question, these men proclaim the maxims adopted by their countrymen, and which formed their own character; they record their views of their...

Here a very important consideration will be the principles to which the author refers, the bearing and motives of the actions and events which he describes, and...

Of these historians, whom we must make thoroughly our own, with whom we must linger long, if we would live with their respective nations, and enter deeply into...

The Emperor drove Baron Beyens in his dog-cart; the Empress drove with the Princess Metternich in a victoria to the field, where she left her and returned to...

What is present and living in their environment, is their proper material. The influences that have formed the writer are identical with those which have...

In the same way he gives us descriptions of battles, as if he bad been an actual spectator; but whose features would serve well enough for battles in any...

Xenophon's Retreat of the Ten Thousand is a work equally original. Caesar's Commentaries are the simple masterpiece of a mighty spirit. Among the ancients,...

A history which aspires to traverse long periods of time, or to be universal, must indeed forego the attempt to give individual representations of the past as...

Whether, indeed such reflections are truly interesting and enlivening, depends on the writer's own spirit. Moral reflections must here be specially noticed, -...

The domain of reality - actually seen, or capable of being so - affords a very different basis in point of firmness from that fugitive and shadowy element, in...

In Germany such masters are rare. Frederick the Great ("Histoire de mon temps") is an illustrious exception. Writers of this order must occupy an elevated...

Of the first kind, the mention of one or two distinguished names will furnish a definite type. To this category belong Herodotus, Thucydides, and other...

It is the aim of the investigator to gain a view of the entire history of a people or a country, or of the world, in short, what we call Universal History. In...

Every writer of history proposes to himself an original method. The English and French confess to general principles of historical composition. Their standpoint...

In modern times the relations are entirely altered. Our culture is essentially comprehensive and immediately changes all events into historical representations....

This first kind of Reflective History is most nearly akin to the preceding, when it has no farther aim than to present the annals of a country complete. Such...

Among the best of the kind may be reckoned such annalist as approach those of the first class; who give so vivid a transcript of events that the reader may well...

A second species of Reflective History is what we may call the Pragmatical. When we have to deal with the Past, and occupy ourselves with a remote world a...

Approaching history thus prepossessed, Speculation might be expected to treat it as a mere passive material; and, so far from leaving it in its native truth, to...

This takes the occurrence out of the category of the Past and makes it virtually Present. Pragmatical (didactic) reflections, though in their nature decidedly...

Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by...

The pallid shades of memory struggle in vain with the life and freedom of the Present. Looked at in this light, nothing can be shallower than the oft-repeated...

He designed to prepare a body of political doctrines for the instruction of princes, governments and peoples (he formed a special collection of doctrines and...

One Reflective History therefore supersedes another. The materials are patent to every writer: each is likely enough to believe himself capable of arranging and...

Its peculiarity in point of fact and of intention, consists in the acuteness with which the writer extorts something from the records which was not in the...

In the latter case, these important phenomena (Art, Law, Religion, &c.) appear as purely accidental national peculiarities. It must be remarked that, when...

The last species of Reflective History announces its fragmentary character on the very face of it. It adopts an abstract position; yet, since it takes general...

No explanation was needed of the two previous classes; their nature was self-evident. It is otherwise with this last, which certainly seems to require an...