[2] Cursed be the friend who is faithful to thee in trouble! Never shall a woman's loving heart cherish thee.
[3] He is beloved! Trust better prophets!
[4] Th. Mundt: Madonna, pp. 142, 274, 326, 374, 406.
[5] Mundt: Litteratur der Gegenwart, p. 353.
[6] L. Tieck: Gesammelte Novellen, Breslau, 1855, i. 38, 79.
[XXIII]
RAHEL, BETTINA, CHARLOTTE STIEGLITZ
The representation of the relation between literature and politics, the history of literary events, and the delineation of the characters and work of the most eminent of the men who constituted Young Germany, do not sufficiently reveal to us the spirit, the psychical condition of the time.
What is done, and what happens, is its outward manifestation. In books, effect is a first consideration; what is represented in them must be to a certain extent exaggerated, thrown into relief, if only for the sake of distinctness. To find the clue to the intellectual life lived at any given period, we must get as close as possible to the living, feeling, individual, and we must not neglect to supplement the impression received from an observation of the leading men of the time by a study of its typical women.