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      REMARKS ON TKK GENIUS A ^ TD WRITIKaS OF REifcpEtt , ' <••• - . ' ¦ •

      HERDER is one of thosesupe * rior ^ O er maxi waritetSj wjho » renouncing popularity , still put in 3 . well-founded claim to be ranked among the classics of their coun * try . little is known : of his * early

      life ; as "his Birth was lotv , he did not-partake' till late of the advantages of i regular education , and was in a gre&t degree tke educator of himself ; But it was one

      of the weaknesses which marked a mind of great strength , that he seemed ashamed of the inferior station he had once occupied imscH Giety ; arid I know some of his friends 1

      who had enjoyedKis \ intim ^ . t , e acquaintance 1 for years , and who never heard him mention * -anyrrof the cifcumsi&ndes of his iiifency or youth . It is known lJliat / r he

      was born > at Morungen \ n Prussia 9 In the year 1741 , of hunntfele pa §_ r ^ ntS ; andthat he lived ( for a ! skort time at leas f even in a state of

      servitude ; He ^ h ^ weyeiiy € cmnd means to gain a'considerable portion < tf leaSrrt ^ g ^ fund i thert devoted hittuHAT to -th | e r church , \ in « ev ^ ry part . of ! Germany the resource of Jhose to whom fortune has been a "iggard' in the communication

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      of ; her g ^ As ^ wKile nature has heeii pEofuisei lia ithe higher endow ^ icnts of "thd niBidehrst ^ Bdiag ^ * Uferxier was eBainently qualified forl ^ n « xrclesiastical lileu ia © d theological pursuits . Hifi'St ^ e ^ botJh of dora

      position and conversattoh Tyasodis - tinguishedrby fgreBJtlferydur df « s « nti mei > t ; he was o constitutipnaily disposed to ^ jpietyw \ Ivt hispkifoaoftAi / , he loved great and coriiprehensive ideas rather than the Minute iaad

      critical * analysis ofi thdughtst ; idji criticismywanting certainvphilblfS gical attaimments , the rather « &-glected . the letter * and \^ ea , t a , t onitc to the spirit of ihjfe authooj ^ in vfcfis poetry ,, his ge ^ ni us ^ i mpe l led Hinp rto lyric , rathear thaniepic oi » d ^ rkr ^ jatic

      compositidn . loiWith a -. Mtnodb mo formed ^ tre ) would probably jbave chosen theology as his Htudy tven had nofc r the jmvdrty aand lowness of his station preclude ^ all cjijo i ci ^ His i first / writing !* , w ^ hich we r e- cri tj - oal andcohtrav ^ rsial ^ attracted

      general notice ; apd , i so eariy i asi itfae year l-776 ^ be wfta ^ iinvited # s A ; dergyman , ^ to iWeipmr ^ already honoured by the presence of * Hfcel&tid and Got he j I Here he becccme the friend of theiilate Dpclicss JDcma ^

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      THE MONTHLY HEi 5 iSi 1 : 5 B . y . " ¦ ; . ' . ¦ ¦ " ¦ : - ' ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ . ¦ - ¦ OF " ¦ . ¦ - ¦[ : ~ : r - *>' < .- }> : l : _ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ , i . ¦ -. ' . ¦/ - ? ;¦ . „ ¦¦ ' f Theology and * General Litefature .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1808, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2391/page/1/