Schlegel seems to have read our, which is the reading of the folio of 1623.—Trans.
[2] The νοὑς of Anaxagoras. A brief, but characteristic sketch of these earlier philosophemes is given in Thirlwall’s History of Greece, vol ii. See, also, Ritter’s History of Philosophy, vol. i—Trans.
[3] Schlegel is here alluding to Condillac and his theory of transformed sensations.—Trans.
[4] Kant. For a full and systematic view or modern German philosophy, see Michelet’s Geschichte d. letzten Systeme d. Phil. in Deutschland, Berlin, 1837-8. Some able and ingenious essays on its errors and abuses are to be found in Fred. Ancillon’s Essais de Philosophie, de Politique, et de Littérature.—Trans.
[5] Jacobi, in his Glauben’s-Philosophie.—Trans.
[6] Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre.—Trans.
[7] Schelling’s Natur-Philosophie.—Trans.
[8] Schlegel is alluding to those systems which suppose a primary and original essence, which, by its successive spontaneous developments, produce every thing else out of itself. This absolute original of all things was by Schelling, after Spinosa, called natura naturans, while, by a phraseology which happily indicates the identity of the self-developing subject and its objective developments, the totality of the objects derived from it are termed natura naturata.—Trans.
[9] Hegel. For a view of his philosophy, see the Article Hegel, in the Penny Cyclopædia, and Morel’s Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century, vol. ii., p. 131.—Trans.
[10] Schlegel is speaking of Byron, and his Cain, a Mystery.—Trans.