During the Forties men had arrived at the persuasion that there was something of greater value than sudden inspiration and a life of pure intellectuality. There was humble and daring work to be done in science and in politics. We see German philosophy develop in the direction of radicalism, and we come upon poets whose aim it is to prepare the way for political liberty.
[1] Karl Hillebrand: Zeiten, Völker und Menschen, ii. 5. Aus dem unzünftigen Schriftthum Deutschlands.—La société de Berlin. Revue des deux mondes, 1870.
[2] All virtues are one virtue; yea, verily, they are all one and the same. Wouldst thou know its name? Its name is justice.
[3] Because justice is truth. Simplicity, fairness, unselfishness, a share for all.
[4] Rahel, ein Buch des Andenkens für Freunde, i.-iii. Briefwechsel zwischen Varnhagen und Rahel, i.-ii. Varnhagen: Gallerie von Bildnissen aus Rahels Umgang, Ludmilla Assing: Aus Rahels Herzensleben.
[5] Briefe Goethe's an Sophie von la Roche und Bettina Brentano nebst dichterischen Beilagen. 1879.
[6] Dies Buch gehört dem König, p. 531.
[7] Pour out thy horn of plenty; give us blossom and fruit together; let there be not only wisdom, but wit and youth in thy words. In thy pages let us find human beings, beings who have lived and thought; let love, let anger's lightning-flash kindle thy Muse's flame.