Foremost stands Lessing, the first critic of his time. Next to him comes Herder, a devout philosopher, and a clear-sighted intellect, with the eyes of a child; curious to penetrate the maze and noisy market of the world, the variegated life among the ancients and the moderns in search for that beautiful humanity which he had sketched in his own mind, and which he would fain proclaim the order of an otherwise mysterious providence. The two brothers Schlegel—William, the noble interpreter and translator of Shakspeare, and Frederic, known best by his investigations of the language and wisdom of the Indians—follow him, and Moses Mendelssohn, a Jewish philosopher, closes the series of these writers. The treatise of the latter on the Sublime and Naïve will be read with interest by everybody who has only an ordinary reading of ancient and modern poetry. Distinct from all the rest stand Wieland and Jean Paul Richter, best known in this country by the appellation, of Jean Paul.
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