Translated from the German by A. E. Kroeger.
With a New Introduction by Professor W. T. Harris.
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THE SCIENCE OF RIGHTS.
By J. G. FICHTE.
Translated from the German by A. E. Kroeger.
With a New Introduction by Professor W. T. Harris.
Fichte belongs to those great men whose lives are an everlasting possession to mankind, and whose words the world does not willingly let die. His character stands written in his life, a massive but severely simple whole. It has no parts, the depth and earnestness on which it rests speak forth alike in his thoughts, words and actions. No man of his time, few, perhaps, of any time, exercised a more powerful, spirit-stirring influence over the minds of his fellow-countrymen. The impulse which he communicated to the national thought extended far beyond the sphere of his personal influences; it has awakened, it will still awaken, high emotion and manly resolution in thousands who never heard his voice. The ceaseless effort of his life was to rouse men to a sense of the divinity of their own nature, to fix their thoughts upon a spiritual life as the only true and real life; to teach them to look upon all else as mere show and unreality; and thus to lead them to constant effort after the highest ideal of purity, virtue, independence and self-denial.
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