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346 GERMAN LITEEATUHE.
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GERMAN LITJEHATUHE.
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{Continued From Page 283.) 1. The B Miss...
give / ' because we iiave " freely received , " whether it be time , talents , raoney , or example ; for , as Miss Barber well expresses it ,
spring " Charity ing from , on tlie gratitude contrary towards , is a motive our , Creator a princi and ple , love in the to human our fellow heart - ,
Increasing creatures , with causi p ng ower its , d influence istilled into to activity be felt , at wherever times harden opportunity ing itself offers with . with assumed the severity penitent to and unmask conscience hypocrisy -stricken , at oth sinner ers min it gling knows tears no of measure sympath in y
puffed its duration up , seeketh , but ' suffer not her eth own long , , and not eas ki il y , provoked enduret , h , thinketh all things no , is evil not , ' charity and , thoug !' h she bestows c all her goods to feed the poor , deems it not
" In the chamber of our own heart , then , let each ask , ' Who is my neighb come our ? forth ' and from , apart the from still the small glare voice and of conscience Mon of th . Then world , not let the onl answer in the
tenants of the noble ma , nsions that rise around us will th , at neighb y or be f dependent ound , but s , fr ch iends in t . And ir dail there y walk unostentatiousl in life will encoun y and ter silentl him amon y let g servant he wor s k ,
be done , by means of the kind and thoughtful word , act , and deed . "
346 German Liteeatuhe.
346 GERMAN _LITEEATUHE .
German Litjehatuhe.
GERMAN LITJEHATUHE .
We intend , in this and in subsequent papers , to furnish our readers with some account of the progress of intelligence and social
improvement in Germany , as illustrated by some of the more recent productions of German literature . That is a truly mean and
narrow patriotism which thinks the world bounded , by its own horizon , and , having no idea of its own littlenessas indifferent to
, the moral and intellectual progress of its fellow-men . Many of the best books in all ages have been suggested by the observations of
contemporaries . Men approach each other in their souls rather than in the outward conventionalities of life , whilst small diversities
of opinion or of custom are as nothing when compared with that moral sympathy which results from common hopes and aspirations .
According to the language of all religion and philosophy , man is placed upon this earth for ideal and transcendental objectssuperior
, to his own happiness and selfish interest . Material progress can never compensate for moral decay , but knowledge and science are
valuable just as far as they contribute to the sublime ends of mental and social improvement , rendering men , more intelligent , more
selfdenying , and more honest . In our notices of German books , we do not purpose to review the elaborate compilations of history and numerous
classical compendiums which , from time , to time , issue from the press ; far less shall we weary our readers by dwelling on philosophical and
theological works of a _stiffer character . The mania for barren metaphysics and unprofitable hypotheses is already passing away
before the present political enthusiasm in Germany . The genius of the country is like that of a man who has passed the prime of life
, rather retrospective than creative . There is a dearth of real poetry ;
the novels are heavy and deficient in incident , or occasionally sen-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/58/
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