Goethe's Philosophy

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Excerpt from Goethe's Philosophy: Fifth Annual Address Before the Alumni Association of the University of Nebraska, February 16, 1895I put the sentence advisedly thus, for, whatever may be said to the contrary, Goethe's nature was essentially reli gious, bidding him to explore and penetrate whatever he could, bidding him, too, to revere the unknown. This element of reverence, the religious element, betrays itself constantly in all his writings. It betrays itself in his real, or, more frequently, apparent, worldliness, in his nature cult, in all his philosophy. True, he himself recognizes and presses for recognition cultural in¿uences the importance and value of which are not appreciated by a lower order of minds, in¿uences which, Goethe discerns, enter deeply into man's Spiritual growth. He discerns in man a restlessness, a dissatisfied longing after what not, he interprets this as an essential condition to pass from more to more, from the blade to the ear, after wards to the full corn in the ear A Faust can safely pledge his soul to Satan on the condition that it shall be forfeited only when sense pleasures shall forever content it. That moment never comes. Man's place 1n nature is not to succumb to earth and earthly things, not to rot with the beasts, but to be up and doing. Despite devia tions, man has an instinct of the one true way. In the transcendent mysteries of the spiritual world, Faith and Truth and Love are immense realities to Goethe. His watch-words are learn, Do, act.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.