On "Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau" (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from On "Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau" He continues, she shall hear and judge as he tells He-lives to please himself, but recognizes God, who made him for a work (9) God has sent him into the world to use his own' means in the work, just as, if he sent a courier on a journey, he would travel as he thought best, and return to give an account at the end (10, Exactly thus men stand to God (12) nor is God: the same exactly to all to hen - the Lais' of the town - he is the providential hand that may pacify the policeman and help to pay the rent For all men's lives, shopkeepers' and kings', are equally subject to God's ruling (15, There is great truth in the doctrine of idealism, that, as a man's idea of God is, so will his notion of what is good and fair be. The notion which hohenstiel-schwangau has of God is practical but not elevating God to him is the-hand that will stretch out and help the poor harlot of Leicester Square when she calls, but not the author of all light, te source of all truth, the law of universal good.' His notion of God is mean if not superstitious, and it must not surprise to find his idea of right mean also. Indeed, it is a making the best of both worlds, or, as he says, . 9' to please him self ou the great scale, having regard to immortality no less (17 He must be just what God meant him to be (18) he must preserve what is, and rule men so as to render solid and stabilify them (19, His rank has been high, and though not of greatest mind and rarest nature, yet he has been among the greatest and best of men as a4 L111. Jos. King, jun. 0n prince hchenstiel-schwangau. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.