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- 0:01Section thirty four of Genetic Studies of Genius, Volume two, The Early Mental
- 0:06Traits of three hundred Genuses by Katharine Cox. This is a LibriVox recording or
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- 0:16rogue recorded by Leon Harvey, Chapter twenty one cases rated at a i i
- 0:23Q one hundred seventy two one hundred eighty. Thomas Chatterton seventeen fifty two to
- 0:28seventeen seventy an English poet and prose writer ai i Q one hundred seventy ai
- 0:34Q one hundred seventy one. Family standing the Chattertons had, for generations belonged
- 0:41to a class of worthy, unskilled workers, chiefly sections. The poet's father,
- 0:45however, had by his abilities, raised himself above the position of his
- 0:49forebearers. He was a great reader, with an inclination of antiquarian pursuits.
- 0:55He became a writing master and a chaunter. It was said that he was
- 0:58eccentric. Shatterdon's mother had no shining abilities, shows fairly well educated, and
- 1:03after her husband's death, supported his mother and her two children by teaching and
- 1:07by clever neal work two development age seventeen one interests. Even before he was
- 1:18five, Thomas had a thirst for pre eminence. He would preside over his
- 1:21playmates as their master, and they his hired servants. At fifteen, believing
- 1:26that much study had soured his tempo, he determined to soften his austerity by
- 1:30cultivating the acquaintance of a certain young girl. But she put its sudden end
- 1:34to the scheme by marrying, much to Shatter's express disgust and apparently his unexpressed
- 1:40disappointment. The boy's amusements were few and simple. With his friends, he
- 1:44strolled into the country discussing literary masters or reciting verses. In his middle teens,
- 1:51he studied, for the most part independently ancient literature, English, heraldry,
- 1:55metaphysics, mathematics, astronomy, music and soudery. He executed heroldic designs.
- 2:01After receiving some lessons from an agreever two education. At the age of
- 2:08five, Chatterden was put to school, but was soon returned to his mother
- 2:12by the master, as confirmed Dullard. When it was about six and a
- 2:15half. His mother taught him the alphabet and letter with the assistance of her
- 2:20daughter. She instructed him in reading, using an old black letter Bible as
- 2:23a text. At seven and three fourths Chatterton entered Colston's Hospital School, a
- 2:30free school for poor boys, where the three hours were taught, and he
- 2:35continued there until he was fourteen. Three schools Standing in Progress. A school
- 2:39teacher stated that Thomas was making rapid progress in arithmetic at the age of ten.
- 2:44The boys room mate stated Letter that he, Chatterden and another carried all
- 2:47before them at school. Four friends and associates. Chatterton's views school friends,
- 2:54with the exception of his roommate Carrie, Letter and author, were solid,
- 2:59unimaginative lads who were unaware that their colleague had written verses while at school.
- 3:04Man of fact, generly believed him incapable of producing such work as was afterward
- 3:08proved to be His. Others, however, held him to be a very
- 3:13extraordinary genius. They believed him capable of the performance, but incapable of the
- 3:17deception. C. Two six. The junior Master, a young man deeply
- 3:23interested in history and poetry and something of a peld himself, was Chatterton's close
- 3:27friend. Five Reading As soon as he had learned to read, Chatterton read
- 3:34all day so assiduously that they feared for his health. At the age of
- 3:38ten, he spent the trifle allowed him for poker money to hire books from
- 3:42the circulating library. At ten and eleven he wrote a catalog of the seventy
- 3:46books, chiefly of history and divinity they he had read. According to his
- 3:50schoolmates, he retired to read during the hours a lotted for play. Before
- 3:54he was fifteen, he had read and carefully studied the works of Chaucer,
- 3:59Shakespeare, and Milton. During the succeeding years his reading continued unabated. Six
- 4:04production achievement. Chatterdan's first known verses, sixteen lines on the Last Epiphany,
- 4:12were published when their author was ten. In the same year was written a
- 4:15hymn for Christmas, consisting of seven stanzas of six lines each, but this
- 4:19was not published. At eleven or twelve, he wrote the sarcastic lines sly
- 4:26Dick thirty nine couplets, The Churchwarden and the Apparishion a Fable thirty lines published,
- 4:32and Apostate Will fifty four couplets. At fourteen and two thirds, Chatterson
- 4:39became the apprentice of a scrivener, A good position because the hours were short,
- 4:43affording much free time for independent study and writing. At fifteen, Chatterton
- 4:47wrote a number of love lyrics and other occasional verses for the use of his
- 4:50friend, and the same year he began to fabricate the Rarely Romances, a
- 4:56mass of Suedo ancient literature invented with the help of some old men Jamden's Britannia,
- 5:02Baker's Chronicles and Charters of Bristol, Choices works, and some antique dictionaries
- 5:08and reliques. The Romance of the Psychic is probably the earliest of these romances,
- 5:15and here as letter the author added to his ancient version of modern translation.
- 5:21The first Railly manuscript, a post chronicle, was brindawin Chatterton was not
- 5:26yet sixteen. Although the author had little knowledge of the language, literature and
- 5:30manners of the period he had tended to portray. The production of the Rarey
- 5:33manuscripts started to controversy, as through their authenticity, which only recently died out,
- 5:40is now universally admitted that Chatterton was the author. The young poet turned
- 5:46his work over to Catcott, a collector of old books, and Barrett of
- 5:50Suedo historian. He received very little return for them. A tragedy Elia failed
- 5:57to find publication. Of sixteen and a third, Chatterson sent a history of
- 6:02painting by Rally, with explantory notes and some verses by Abbert John in manuscript
- 6:09to Horace Walpole, who was all interest until he discovered his correspondence lowly station.
- 6:15Walpole then handed the work to antiquaries, who pointed out the fabrications.
- 6:21Chatterton, in his disappointment, wrote in a petitious sonnet addressed to Walpole,
- 6:27which however, he never dispatched. At sixteen and a half Chatterton published Eleanor
- 6:32and Juga in the Town and Country magazine. Before his death at seventeen and
- 6:39three fourths Chatterton had written upward of six hundred pages of verse and prose,
- 6:45Seven evidences of precocity. The boy's sister of recourse that he was dull in
- 6:49learning, not knowing many letters at four years old, and he always objected
- 6:53to read in a small book. He has set that up to six and
- 6:57a half. His mother regarded him as little better than a fool. At
- 7:00his confirmation at ten or twelve, he attracted attention by his sensible and serious
- 7:03remarks. At fourteen and two thirds, Chatterton wrote a letter to a friend
- 7:08in America which he incorporated all the hard words in the English language. See
- 7:13also two one, five and six A I I Q one it in seventy
- 7:16relative coason of data point A two three development from seventeen to twenty six.
- 7:23Released from his apprenticeship at seventeen and a half, Chatterton traveled to London,
- 7:27where he received some encouragement from the publishers. He started on political writings,
- 7:31but finding no sale for them, reverted to poetry. Otherwise works were accepted,
- 7:35production was postponed and sums due were not paid. A series of disappointments
- 7:42followed, and then, having in without food for two or three days,
- 7:46Thomas Chatterton was found dead in his room. It was generally believed that he
- 7:49had committed suicide. A I I I Q one it in seventy relived coation
- 7:56of data point seventy five. Giocomo Leopardi seventeen ninety eight to eighteen thirty seven
- 8:03an Italian poet ai Q one hundred seventy ai Q one hundred seventy five one
- 8:11family standing. Leopardi was of noble blood on both sides of his family.
- 8:16His father, Count Monaldi Leopardi, was a man of some culture, a
- 8:20rigid Roman Catholic, limited in his range of intellect, whose naturally harsh and
- 8:24non sympathetic nature was apparently sourced by financial difficulties. The whole thought of the
- 8:31mother, the Marchioness Adelaide of the noble house of Antizie, was absorbed in
- 8:37parsimonious efforts to repair the fortunes of her husband. Not indeed a bad woman,
- 8:41she was, rather, in some ways a woman of superior character and
- 8:43of much strength of will. But she exhibited none of the understanding or affection
- 8:48for which her gifted and sensitive little son longed two development to age seventeen one
- 8:56interests Leopard's boy odd interest in classical erudition was intense. His brother recalled that,
- 9:03awakened very late in the night, he used to see Giacomo on his
- 9:07knees at the little table, so as to be able to write to the
- 9:09last moment by the light which was going out. Giacomo was talkative, imaginative,
- 9:16bright, quick and inventive, A clever analyst of characterism motives. He
- 9:20used to dramatize and sabatarized the conflicts of home life, preparing little comedies and
- 9:24tragedies, which he presented with the assistance of his brothers and sister. A
- 9:30favorite theme was that in which the tyrant his father was worsted by the hero
- 9:35himself. Two education. His education up to the age of nine was entrusted
- 9:41to two local priests, one of whom carried it on thereafter until the boy
- 9:46was fourteen. At the age of ten, Giacomo embarked upon a course of
- 9:50self instruction and continued thenceforth without intermission, making his studies his sole occupation.
- 9:56Without a master, he learned Greek, French, Spanish, German, English,
- 10:00and Hebrew. His proficiency in the last named enabled him to maintain discussions
- 10:05with certain learned Jews of Anconna, and his familiarity with Greek is reported as
- 10:11almost incredible. He had attained a sort of critical divination in respect to all
- 10:16Greek writers, infallibility confirmed by the most eminent commentators. He persevered in his
- 10:22philological studies until his eyesight failed seven years later. Three schools standing in progress.
- 10:31Although Leopardi never attended a school, he was set at twelve to be
- 10:33quite the equal of a Lyceum student. Four friends and associates, perhapsicals.
- 10:41He could look for neither sympathy nor love from his parents. Gerocomo was particularly
- 10:46attached to a younger brother and sister. The brother a Yu, his junior,
- 10:50was his confident in everything. Joacoma was evidently the leader of the little
- 10:56home group. Five reader. Young Leopardy had the use of a rich library
- 11:03collected by his father, a great lover of literature. In it, the
- 11:07boy passed achieved portion of his days, keeping careful notes of his reading and
- 11:09remembering important points. He read the classics, biblical works, the Alexandria of
- 11:16Egypt, and histories of the saints, to Lemachus and Robinson Crusoe. He
- 11:20read surreptitiously with his brother. Leoparty's readings in childhood lay the foundation of his
- 11:26great store of knowledge. Leoparty could never have accomplished so much had he not
- 11:31read continually and kept full written record of all his reading. His were not
- 11:35superficial performances, but the works of a real scholar, assimilating, condensing,
- 11:39and reproducing his material transformed and unified in parts. However, his early productions
- 11:45show only astounding laborious study and patience. The critics are raged however, that
- 11:50as the work of a boy, they are remarkable, and that the productions
- 11:54of even these early years are worthy representatives of Leoparty's critical ability six production achievement.
- 12:03Before the age of twelve, Giacomo had composed little essays, some of
- 12:07which are still preserved. These he recited at the end of the school year,
- 12:11thereby winning the applause of his friends and the admiration of his father.
- 12:15Between his twelfth and twenty six years, mainly between thirteen and twenty, he
- 12:18wrote a marvelous number of expositions, annotations, glosses, commentaries of redescription on
- 12:24many classical authors, testifying to philological learning and genius seldom paralleled. The most
- 12:31important these philological manuscripts, chiefly written in Latin, were a commentary on the
- 12:35life of Plotinus bi Porphyry written at sixteen, essay on the popular Eras of
- 12:41the Ancients, which forms a volume of the Florence edition of his works,
- 12:45written at seventeen, fragments gathered from the Holy Fathers of the Church, glosses
- 12:50on Plato, Dionysius of Halicarnasis, Demetrius Phalerius, theon the Sophist et cetera,
- 12:58dissertations on Muscias, the batrach comiomnachaw Philo, Judaeus, the Reputation of
- 13:05Horace among the Ancients, et cetera, together with the fragments on Celsius,
- 13:11Florus, Xenophon, et cetera. And we are assured on competent testimony that
- 13:15these writings are not merely very clever essays of youth, but a mature inconception,
- 13:20masterly in execution, and thoroughin scholarship. He also particularly translates parts of
- 13:26Hesiod, the Odyssey, Simonides, Mosus, Isocrates, Epictetus, et cetera.
- 13:33Erudite Germans accepted as genuine his forged Greek odes, so did good Italian
- 13:39scholars. His pretended text of the fourteenth century from his thirteenth year is preserved
- 13:45a little poem il Balams three stanzas of six lines each on the Bible Story,
- 13:50followed by three stanzas in blank verse on the Punic Wars, and a
- 13:54poem on Cato in Africa in a regular meto. This described the camp of
- 14:00Ras Serglia in six verse stanzas and Caesar's voyage in Ford's verse stanzas. His
- 14:05description of a tempest and night is like a song. Caesar's victory is described
- 14:09in a three verse stanza, as is also Cado's death. A few verses
- 14:13are preserved from the following years, as well as records of other poems and
- 14:16of scientific creatices. An enormously learned history of Astronomy begun at thirteen, was
- 14:22published when Leoparty was fifteen. Two translations from the Greek appeared when he was
- 14:26sixteen. The same year he read a prose sermon on the Trial of Jesus
- 14:31to an assemblage of aristocrats. This was one of a number of religious writings.
- 14:35At the same age, he wrote in blank verse a Tale of the
- 14:39Flood. He produced exercises in logic and philosophy in rhetorical form that were very
- 14:43fanciful in ethul and yet none the less productions of genius. He wrote further
- 14:50a little poem on the Three Wise Men of the East, a Tragedy of
- 14:54Pompeii, and a tribute to Saint Francis desails. Leoparty translated in his childish
- 14:58way an Elegy of Ovid. He wrote verses on the story of Samson,
- 15:03dissertations logic, metaphysical, physical and moral, and the usual themes of the
- 15:09philosophical school. The Party's study of natural history appears in a prose work in
- 15:13twelve treatises the prevailing ideas the philosophers and historians are joined together by the free
- 15:20imagination of the youthful genius. The book is full of detail, it rather
- 15:24resembles a summary than history. When Libreparty reached the age of sixteen years,
- 15:28in two months his father noted in his diary that he had received the life
- 15:33of Plutius translated by his son, who had never taken any lessons in Greek.
- 15:37Concilia reports that the two works on Plutonus were written within six months,
- 15:41unless in a month young scholar had written in addition to Di Vita et Scriptis
- 15:46Rhetorium quorundum. He then went on to write a longer work on the lives
- 15:50of the church fallows of the second century, with the commentary on their works
- 15:56seven evidences of Prococody Council. Instead of low Party at sixteen, we have
- 16:02reason to expect much from a young man who even now shows us extraordinary ability.
- 16:07The Swedish scholar Akerblad expressed the same opinion. Cruiser who would spend a
- 16:14lifetime the study of Plotinus made use of young Leopardi's work in writing his own.
- 16:18No Ibera called him at this time the super erudite and a conspicuous ornament
- 16:23of Italy. The great scholars Simmer and Thilo were full of praise. She
- 16:30also one five and six a Iqo, one dred and seventy relived Coach of
- 16:34Debt at points six to zero three development from seventeen to twenty six. At
- 16:41the age of seventeen, Giacomo was compelled to spend a whole year without reading
- 16:45so seriously had his eyes become affected by his intense use of them. He
- 16:49took to thinking, and thus the words that he became enamored of philosophy,
- 16:52to which with its related literatures, he devoted the rest of his life.
- 16:56At eighteen or nineteen, Leoparty published farriers translations and original articles in the Spethetour,
- 17:03a journal of Milan. Among these were the following. One was the
- 17:07Frogs and Mice translation from the Greek Milan eighteen sixteen, reprinted nine times of
- 17:12different collections. Two him of Neptune, a clever forgery, said by his
- 17:18author to be a translation from the Greek newly discovered with notes and supplemented by
- 17:22two Anacreontic nodes in Greek, also forgeries newly discovered Milan, eighteen seventeen.
- 17:30Three. Second Book of the Need translated Milan, eighteen seventeen. Four.
- 17:33Annotations on the Chronicle of Eusebius, published in eighteen eighteen at Milan by Angelo
- 17:40May and Giorvarni, saurab Rome eighteen twenty three. Five Odes on Italy and
- 17:48at the Monument of Dante in course of erection at Florence, Rome, eighteen
- 17:52eighteen. The works of this period placed their author upon the height, which
- 17:56he maintained ever afterward. In addition to the periodical publications, Leopardy prepared as
- 18:03seventeen an edition of Sistois with translations and annotations. He wrote during the same
- 18:08year his essay on the popular Errors of the Ancients, in which he cited
- 18:12more than four hundred authors. This work was called by Saint Beuve the Production
- 18:17of material Mind. A nineteenth year Leoparty began the remarkable correspondence with Giorodani,
- 18:22a rare mirror of the poet's mind. Numerous odes and other poems appeared.
- 18:29At the age of twenty four. Leoparties spent some time in Rome, where
- 18:33he won the esteem and excited the wonder of Bunsen and Neuber. The latter
- 18:37procured him the offer of rapid advancement if he would but enter the church.
- 18:42This, however, Theoparty refused to do, preferring freedom rather than advancement.
- 18:47In spite of great physical suffering and profound mental depression, the extent of theop
- 18:52Party's labors was continually prodigious. A i i Q One hundred seventy five with
- 18:57it of Coochnetete point seventy five. Francois Marie Arouette Voltaire sixteen ninety four to
- 19:07seventeen seventy eight, a famous French writer a i Q one hundred seventy a
- 19:11IQ one hundred eighty one. Family standing, the Arouette family was ancient and
- 19:18respectable. Among Voltaire's paternal ancestors were tanners, weavers, drapers, apothecary's purveyors,
- 19:26notaries, owners of small estates. Voltier's father was a competent notary who
- 19:30built up a good practice, attracted the patronage of several persons of importance,
- 19:36a mass considerable capital, and acquired the title of councilor to the King,
- 19:38a notary to the Chettlet. The mother belonged to the di'a Murad family of
- 19:45the old Poitot Noblessi. Her father held a position of dignitary in the parliament
- 19:49of his province. Two development, age seventeen one. Interests. Poetry was
- 19:56Voltaire's first passion and his last before when he was eleven, he wrote verses
- 20:00with extraordinary facility and marked enthusiasm. At school, he walked and taught with
- 20:07the fathers while the others were at their games. When told that he should
- 20:10play like his comrades, he said, everybody must jump after his own fashion.
- 20:15The writer's serious interests, as well as Cambridge and clever analysis of motives,
- 20:19are displayed in letters of Voltaire Penn At the age of sixteen, Even
- 20:25then, he determined that literature was to be his calling. His father,
- 20:29however, did not acquiescence in this decision, insisting that his son should follow
- 20:33the law to education instructed in a desertory way by the abe chattanouth. Little
- 20:41Arat, aged three, learned to read from La Foutaine's fables. At ten,
- 20:45he was sent to school, where he took his place in the lowest
- 20:48class and began the study of Greek in Latin. The second year he read
- 20:52Esop's Fables. After continuing his education at the same school until his seventeenth year,
- 20:59Airet began his study of law. At the same time pursued geometry and
- 21:03metaphysics. Three schools study in progress. The thin faced little ten year old
- 21:07was keen wit enough. He rarely picked up Latin and the nonsense of the
- 21:11curriculum, and showed a passionate veracity for information of any and every kind.
- 21:18His intelligence, indeed, was like an arrow, an arrow which always went
- 21:22straight to the mark. Even during his school days. He acquired so much
- 21:25literary skill that one of his teachers was humiliated by his keen literary criticism.
- 21:30Unwilling to be overruled by a child, the teacher seized his pupil by the
- 21:33collar and, shaking him, cried out, wretch, he will one day
- 21:37be the standard barrier of deism in France. Voltaire became and remained one of
- 21:41the best students in his class. At sixteen, he won extraordinary honors and
- 21:45prize. Ofter prize was awarded to him. His poetic talents were considered so
- 21:51marvelous that he was deemed worthy of an introduction to the literary lion of the
- 21:55day J. B. Rossel For for instance, associates. Voltier's earliest friend
- 22:02and patron was the clever abe Chateaunauf. At school, the boy was a
- 22:06favorite with his teachers, admired by all his companions, and by some of
- 22:11them beloved. The desert fathers were, with one exception, the friends of
- 22:15their pupil, and Adowitz's special tutor remained his lifelong friend. As a reward
- 22:18for his fluent verses, the boy was allowed to visit the mirldless Ninon de
- 22:22lenclous at then eighty years old, and she, captivated by the wondrous boy
- 22:27poet, left him at her death a legacy for the purchase of books.
- 22:33Five. Reading certain passages in the classics thrilled the young poet. He loved
- 22:38Cicero, was early and passionately devoted to Horace and Virgil, and he worshiped
- 22:44Cornel six production achievement. At the age of twelve, and encouraged by his
- 22:49success of earlier verses, Vultier attempted a tragedy Amulius numatour, but this hea
- 22:55later burned. Extant verses of this period show astounding ability. His first published
- 23:00work, twenty lines of verse, was a petition to the King on behalf
- 23:03of an invalid soldier. Turned with much ingenuity and elegance. It attracted the
- 23:07attention of hers surs in Paris. The practical father was alarmed at so much
- 23:14notoriety, and anxiously sought to restrain his son's poetical enthusiasm. A translation of
- 23:18a Latin ode on Saint Genevieve eleven ten line stanzas, which when the poet
- 23:23was fifteen, was published about this time. Seven Evidences of precocity. Will
- 23:30the little Francois began to learn at three, was soon after a certain rabold
- 23:36diistical poem of j. B Roussel, taught him by his patron, the
- 23:40witty Abe, who was greatly entertained by the child's active intellect. I wrote
- 23:45verses from my credle, says Voltaire, and in the early years the two
- 23:48Adowet brothers were pitted against each other in verse writing. The verses of the
- 23:52younger were so good as at first to please and afterward to alarm his father.
- 24:00His early teens, Voltaire treated the attention of a tudor who would listen
- 24:03long and late to sharp questions on history and politics. That boy wants to
- 24:07weigh the great questions of Europe in his little scales, was a tudor's comment.
- 24:11At turn, the boy discussed important questions of the day with Nenon di
- 24:15Lencloss, who saw in him on that memorial visit the German of the great
- 24:18man that was to be. He was early noted for his clever departi At
- 24:23a level twelve, the boy became the prodigy of the College Louis de Grande,
- 24:27and this position he maintained to the end of his course. A iq
- 24:33Waanton certainly relived Coacial dinner points sevent five three development from seventeen to twenty six.
- 24:40At seventeen, Francois arrived in Paris a law student. He became acquainted
- 24:45with the epicureans of the Temple and was soon playing the Gallant, a singer
- 24:48of impromptu verse, who was made much of by his fellows, caressed by
- 24:53the ladies, and a protegee of princes. He drank deeply of the gay
- 24:57life. As a consequence, was sent his father to rusticate Atsanne, but
- 25:03hereto All doors were opened to him and his life retained many of its former
- 25:06delights. He returned to Paris before the end of his nineteenth year as wild
- 25:11as ever, and his father, in despair, arranged to have him shipped
- 25:15off as attache of the French ambassador to the Netherlands. In the Hague,
- 25:19he fell utterly in love with a Protestant maid, and mingled his passion with
- 25:22efforts to convert her to his own faith. Arouet Pere recalled his son to
- 25:29Paris for Baidy's affair with the Dutch girl, and disinherited him when he refused
- 25:33compliance. But the youth was soon forgiven and the old Paris life was resumed.
- 25:40At twenty at a friend's invitation, young Arawet spent several months at the
- 25:44Chateau Saint Ange in an atmosphere of gossip, bonmotz and scandal. Nevertheless,
- 25:51his verses continued, he published from time to time, and he was soon
- 25:55working on his Edip, conceived the previous year. At twenty one, he'd
- 25:59retur turned to Paris and reading Edip to the literary courtier, was hailed as
- 26:03a genius, surpassed only by Corneille and Racine. At the invitation of his
- 26:08friend, he went again to Saint ann and while there had in hand a
- 26:14satire on the Duke of Orleans. As a consequence, he was exiled aged
- 26:18twenty one and a half, but managed to appeal to the regent by a
- 26:22poem, his seventh published work, and was so allowed to return to Paris
- 26:26again. The satires a period, and this time Francois was sent to the
- 26:30Bastille. Here from the age of twenty two and a half to twenty three
- 26:33and a half, he composed large portions of the Henriode, committing them to
- 26:37memory because he had known the Pennoric. His stay in prison was at lengthened
- 26:42by the confession of the true author of the satire, but Atterward's experiences in
- 26:47prison resulted from the writing of the Bastille, his eighth published work. On
- 26:52the appearance of this poem, the young author was again exiled for a while,
- 26:56but twenty four was allowed to return to Paris. Edip was published and
- 27:00then performed on the stage for forty five successive nights. It won universal praise
- 27:04and became at once a standard stage play, which it has remained to the
- 27:10present day. Arawart's success resulted in the gift of a huge gold medal from
- 27:15the king and a request that the play be presented in the Palace Vautierre,
- 27:18as he now called himself, making the most of his popularity, presented age
- 27:23twenty five, the tragedy artemyer By this failed to win the applause accorded to
- 27:29his earlier drama AIQ wad eighty Relived Coast of Debt upon seventy five. Samuel
- 27:37Taylor Coleridge seventeen seventy two to eighteen thirty four an English poet, literary critic,
- 27:42and philosopher ai i q on hundred and seventy five AIQ one hundred and
- 27:48sixty five one family standing. Coleridge's paternal grandfather was a woolen draper. He
- 27:56failed in business and was forced into bankruptcy. His son, the poet's father,
- 28:00was a country clergyman and schoolmaster of no ordinary kind, a classical scholar,
- 28:04and an accomplished mathematician. He was the author of a number of published
- 28:08theological dissertations, as well as some textbooks in Latin. The mother, whose
- 28:12family had inherited a small farm in the Exmourer country, was an admirable economist.
- 28:18Comparatively uneducated, she achieved the highest praise as an excellent housekeeper and admirable
- 28:23wife and mother to develop at age seventeen one interests. Because he was something
- 28:32of a misfit among boys of his own age, Coleridge took little pleasure in
- 28:37boyish sports, except swimming, which he generally enjoyed. At an early age,
- 28:41he acquired an indisposition to all bodily activity. He says to himself that
- 28:45he was a playliss day dreamer. When at the age of eight he heard
- 28:49his father explain astronomical theories. He listened with profound delight and admiration, but
- 28:55without wonder or incredulity. In ever regard his senses in a way as the
- 29:00criteria of his belief. Although Joy's intemperament his efforessing enthusiasms were unusual for a
- 29:07boy of his age and not shared by his associates. His most pronounced interest
- 29:11was in reading, and in this he found a refuge when the boys tormented
- 29:17him. A dramatic trend was developed through his reading, and would often give
- 29:21skillful preservations of the characters of his book. See also two five two.
- 29:26Education. Cathridge entered reading school at two or three, and remained in a
- 29:30tendance there until at six he was ready to become a pupil in the grammar
- 29:34school, of which his father was Rectora. He continued for three years with
- 29:40his father, who had early resolved to make a parson of him. The
- 29:44father's death occurred when his boy was nine, but the latter continued thereafter for
- 29:48half a year in the old school under his father's successor. After a visit
- 29:53to an uncle in London and a short stay at Hertford School, he entered
- 29:59Christ's Hospitals School, which he was to ten freight years, aged ten to
- 30:03eighteen. Here his school muster flogged instead of flattering him, but he gave
- 30:07him a sound basic training in literature on grounds of plain sense and universal logic.
- 30:12The boy's taste was molded by a course of severe criticism. His style
- 30:17gained an excellence, and he learned to appreciate the greater more than the less,
- 30:22preferring Demo's themes to Cicero, Home to Virgil and Virgil to Ovid.
- 30:27Three schools standing in progress at the grammar school, Coleridge eight six or seven,
- 30:33soon outstripped all of his own age because he could read and spell,
- 30:37and had an unnaturally ripe memory and understanding. He was flattered and waddered at
- 30:42by all the old women at this age. Sensibility, imagination, vanity,
- 30:48sloth, and feelings of deep and bitter contempt for all who transversed the orbit
- 30:52of his understanding were prominent and manifest. At ten, having learned to read
- 30:56it tolerably, he was admitted to the Higher School from ten to fourteen.
- 31:00His talents and superiority put him always at the head in the routine of study,
- 31:04although he was utterly without ambition, and as to emulation, it had
- 31:08no meaning for him. In spite of recognizedly high standing. The difference between
- 31:14me and my form fellows in our lessons and little exercises borne a proportion to
- 31:19the measureless difference between me and them in the wide wild wilderness of useless,
- 31:23unarranged books of knowledge and book thoughts. At fourteen college wrote to his brother
- 31:30of rewards offered for superior scholarship. At fifteen or sixteen, he became one
- 31:34of a small band of qualified students selected by the head master to be prepared
- 31:38in a course of special training for the university exhibitions of the school four friends
- 31:45and associates. College was his mother's starling. He was petted by both parents
- 31:49and hated by his brothers. His enthusiasms were not appreciated among his associates.
- 31:56The schoolboys drove him from play and tormented him cruelly. In turn, he
- 31:59became fretful, tamoris and telltale, and vain of his scholastic attainments. He
- 32:04despised much of the boys near his own age. On one occasion, between
- 32:07the age of seven and nine, he ran away from home after a quarrel
- 32:12with his brother. The effects of exposure during this escape lasted for many a
- 32:15year. Lamb, a little more than two years College's junior, entered the
- 32:20same London school a few months before Coleridge's advent there, and soon became his
- 32:23close friend. The younger lad characterized his school fellow so far from home as
- 32:30a poor, friendless boy, but the master called him the sensitive Foour.
- 32:35Collridges and myths were devoted to him. Five reading before he was five,
- 32:42Coleridge read The Arabian Nights, after which he was haunted by specters. At
- 32:46six, he read Belisarius, Robinson, Crusoe and Philip Corres, and during
- 32:51an illness was read Pope's Homer by his brother. Between seven and nine,
- 32:55he read every book he could find. Between ten and fourteen, strangers struck
- 33:00by his conversation made him free of a circulating library in King Street Cheapside.
- 33:06Here he read through the entire collection Catalog's folios and all, whether he understood
- 33:10them or not, running all risks of skulking out daily to get the two
- 33:15volumes to which he was entitled. At fifteen, having determined to become a
- 33:20physician, he read much in medical and surgical works. A little later,
- 33:23under the influence of Cato's essays on Liberty and Necessity, this wild dream gradually
- 33:28gave way to arrange of metaphysics. Valtier's Philosophical Dictionary turned him infidel, but
- 33:34a sound floggin recovered him. See also two two six production achievement. At
- 33:42fifteen, Coleridge wrote his first extant poem, The Advent of Love, and
- 33:46the same year he translated the Greek Hymns of Synesius. At sixteen he wrote
- 33:52Time Real and Imaginary, his first published poem. At about fifteen he sought
- 33:57apprenticeship to a friendly cobblo. Soon after, following the visit of his brother.
- 34:01He determined to follow the latter and become a doctor of medicine. Seven
- 34:07evidences of precocity. Coleridge taught for the first time before he was two years
- 34:13old, saying nasty doctor young while his hand was being dressed for a burner
- 34:15coourse. By pulling a hot coal out of the fire. When not yet
- 34:20three years old, he washed his own inoculation unaffrightened. At three he could
- 34:23read a chapter in the Bible, and nine he reported to his mother instances
- 34:28of the purser's deficiencies in grammar. At nine and a half he was taken
- 34:31by his uncle from the coffee house to coffeehouse and caught a prodigy in his
- 34:37own hearing. At this age he talked and disputed as if he had been
- 34:40a man aiq. On hundred and seventy five, relative coached Vet appointed two
- 34:46three development from seventeen to twenty six. The impetus to a poetical expression was
- 34:52given through a volume of Bowell's Verse, which fell into college's hands when he
- 34:57was seventeen. Following his father's wish that he prepared for the church, Coleridge
- 35:01entered Jesus College, Cambridge in nineteen He was sent up as a scholar on
- 35:07its depend from Christ's Hospital. During his first year of the university he won
- 35:12a gold medal for a saffoic ode on the slave trade. He was studious
- 35:16but capricious. He loved to indulge in lengthy conversations with his friends, or
- 35:21to regale them with long passages from the speeches of Burkenotheros. He wrote in
- 35:25bread much and was an ardent support of the French Revolution, Fox and Republican
- 35:30Centiment. At twenty one, discouraged by debt, he left Cambridge and joined
- 35:35the King's Dragoons. A little later he again altered his intention, secured a
- 35:39discharge and returned to the university. After a visit to Oxford and Southey,
- 35:45he evoldis Game for a utopian society, which was planned to be carried out
- 35:49in America, but this suffered the usual fate of utopias. During this year
- 35:53and the next he collaborated with Southe in the drama The Fall of Robinspierre Sly
- 36:00after a twenty two ear of carriage without a degree. The saurrants on eminent
- 36:04characters were published in the Morning Chronicle during the year. In the meantime,
- 36:08Collidge went to Bristol to live with Southeast, but soon differences arose, pulling
- 36:13an end to the intimacy. At the age of twenty three, Coleridge married.
- 36:17In the following year, he published the first edition of his poems and
- 36:21started a periodical, The Watchman, which however failed to pay expenses and was
- 36:24discontinued. Ill health and anxiety prompted the use of laudanum at this time.
- 36:32At twenty four, college decided on farming as a vocation, with the Lucho
- 36:36as recreation. In the following year, the second edition of his poems was
- 36:39published, and he began The Ancient Mariner and Christabel ai q one undred and
- 36:45sixty five Little Coach of Data point seventy five. Albrecht von Hallow seventy no
- 36:52way to seventeen seventy seven, a distinguished Swiss physiologist, anatomist, botanist and
- 36:58poet ai i q qu one hundred and seventy five a IQ one hundred eighty
- 37:04one. Family. Stanning Haler's father came of an old and respected family that
- 37:09had given fifteen members to the Great and Privy Councils of the Republic of Bern.
- 37:15The father himself held a high state office in Burne's province of Baden,
- 37:17and was well regarded for his learning in legal writings. He was a man
- 37:22of penetrating understanding, of remarkable humor, a singularist in religion, and a
- 37:27good poet. Of Hailo's mother is recorded only that she was the daughter of
- 37:31Antoine and Guel, governor of under Sy. She died before Albrecht was three
- 37:38two Development twenty seventeen one interests. Albert was a frail child who suffered from
- 37:45Rickett's Because of this defect, he could not exercise much, and so merely
- 37:50became fond of writing, drawing, reading and quiet games. He found a
- 37:53special pleasure in long and intensive studies. He was kind and friendly, and
- 37:58the indifference of those who should have given him affection hurt his sensitive nature.
- 38:02His relatives scoffed at his endless passion for reading and despised him for his love
- 38:07of poetry. Alah's father had distant him for the church, and the boy
- 38:12early conceived the desire to become a physician. At Tubingen, botany was his
- 38:16favorite study, and he made extended botanical trips with his professor during his first
- 38:22months of the university he associate enough for the less studious to be drawn into
- 38:25their troubles. A little later, as a conviction grew that here was too
- 38:31much drinking and too little enthusiasm for learning, he decided to go elsewhere two
- 38:37education. From his fourth three thirteenth year, Albert lived with his stepmother on
- 38:43his father's beautiful peasant estate. During this time he received instruction from an old
- 38:47pastor, Abraham Bailliuns, a good pedagogue, although narrow and vain in his
- 38:52penetry. On the death of his father, his guardians sent Albert to the
- 38:59Gymnasium Burn, where he remained for a year. He then spent some time
- 39:04at Belle in the house of a friend, where his constant questioning about French
- 39:07philosophy bought only annoyed and reluctant answers. During a period of ill health,
- 39:13young Hallo shot himself in his room for months at a time, and devoted
- 39:16himself to the writing of verses of every kind in many languages. At fifteenth,
- 39:21the young pedant entered the University of Tubinden in theology, medicine and philosophy,
- 39:25chemistry, anatomy and botany. He had now for the most part professors
- 39:30of great ability and distinction. After a year he went to Leyden, where
- 39:35the simplicity, studiousness, and seriousness of the Dutch students supplied the atmosphere he
- 39:39had been seeking. Here, the botanical garden and the anatomical theater were admirable,
- 39:45and the professors were exceptionally clever men. Two members of the faculty were
- 39:50world famous. Bourreeve was the most distinguished physician of his age, Albinus the
- 39:54most distinguished anatomist. Three schools standing in progress even in early childhood, Albert
- 40:01Hallo outshone all his playmates in the development of his mental abilities. He passed
- 40:07eight without an error, the tests for entrance to the public school. Although
- 40:10the teacher thought it well to repress through great an ambition, the child was
- 40:15beside himself if he were not always through application and ability the first in his
- 40:19group. Soon nothing appeared impossible to his unusual industry. His zealful advancement was
- 40:24incessant, and his patience unlimited. Atten He knew the Greek Testament from cover
- 40:29to cover. Who was typical of him that in a gymnasium entrance examination he
- 40:34substituted for the required Latin exercise, a production in the far more difficult Greek.
- 40:39Four Friends and Associates. As a child, Hallo was loving and lovable,
- 40:44but he was never favored with other children. Because of his poor physique,
- 40:47he could not join in their games, and besides he was allowed less
- 40:51poker money than the other boys. And to whichon Heller lived in the Courton
- 40:55household and to the court of brothers. The Allusians were his intimate friends.
- 41:00Several of his early associates were physicians. Gamelin, afterwards famous as a geologist,
- 41:07was a Tubergin associate. Five. Reading Homer was this boy's romance.
- 41:13At twelve. Horace Novid were also thoroughly familiar, and Virgie was looked upon
- 41:17with reverence as inspire of his own verse A thirteen. Hello found literary models
- 41:23in Brooks and Lowenstein, as well as in the classics. Six production achievement.
- 41:30His tenth year, Halle felt for the first time the desired to make
- 41:34Verses a Laddin satire against his to his view, Teacher is said to have
- 41:37been his earliest work. The next year he began writing rhymes stanzas in German,
- 41:44taking some poem as a model and seeking to exceed or at least equal
- 41:46it. At eleven, when ill with small box, he wrote a French
- 41:52poem full of fire and tenderness, and at twelve he worked out anathematic.
- 41:58When one night a fire broke out, the young poet gathered up his verses
- 42:00and escaped, leaving behind awe of his other possessions. He had at this
- 42:06time no idea of publishing his works, for he felt that a real author
- 42:08must be something quite rare and remarkable, which he was not. As sixteen,
- 42:14he expressed his emotion in morgench Dankan, a noble poem in praise of
- 42:19the creator. Hello's poetical efforts before the close of his seventeenth year included numerous
- 42:23translations from Ovid, Horos and Virgil, many original verses in Latin French,
- 42:30his own German lyrics, dramas, and an epic four thousand lines on a
- 42:32theme from Swiss history. Servant evidences of precocity. The loveliness of young Heller's
- 42:39mind was early apparent, and his fourth year began to preach to the servants,
- 42:44reciting the Bible soils from his little arm chair in the living room.
- 42:47At thirteen or fourteen, his squares delight was to make books. In some
- 42:52of these he kept careful financial accounts, and others he wrote down all the
- 42:55new words he learned from day to day, until he had completed a number
- 42:59of lexico. His ninth year he made great lexicons of all the Hebrew and
- 43:04Greek words in the Old and New Testament, with their variations, roots and
- 43:08meanings. He made it charity and grammar. He prepared two thousand biographies of
- 43:14famous people, on the pattern of Bale and Montery, with which he was
- 43:16already familiar. His ninth year. He is known for his weighty pronouncements of
- 43:22these. One is preserved to the effect that it aroused in him more pity
- 43:27to see and die than to be present at the executioner a criminal, because
- 43:31the death of Wickman is deserved and necessary ai i q. One hundred and
- 43:36seventy five will LiTi Koshna Dat appointed two three development. From seventeen to twenty
- 43:44six, Halari spent two years at Leyden, where he studied intensively under Albinus
- 43:49and Bourgaev. The latter was his pupil's ideal teacher, and his fine character
- 43:53deeply influenced the student. At the end of his nineteenth year, Hallow took
- 43:58the examinations for a doctor's degree, and some months later returned to Burn to
- 44:01establish him swealth independently as a practicing physician. His agreeable personality, ability and
- 44:07successful cures soon attracted a large clientele. The young physician recorded careful case histories,
- 44:14a new procedure in medical practice in the stay, and constantly carried on
- 44:17experimental work. His method of counting the pulse and its use as a criterion,
- 44:22is still followed. At twenty two, Hallow was invited by the Nunburgh
- 44:25Medical Association to contribute to their journal. His work on the muscles of the
- 44:30diaphragm, published when he was twenty five, was well received by the medical
- 44:34world. At his suggestion, the Burn authorities erected an anatomical theater and Holloe
- 44:38held lectures and gave demonstrations there. He was appointed municipal physician the next year,
- 44:45city liberian and a twenty seven professor at Cuttingen. During this period,
- 44:50in addition to his medical activities and the traveled, wrote poetry and studied botany.
- 44:54During his first months in Holland, he visited the important cities, and
- 44:59latter he made a tour of North Germany with two friends. After leaving Leyden,
- 45:02he visited England, where he made several distinguished physicians. In Paris,
- 45:07he attended lectures by noted scientists at Basil with his friend Gestner. He became
- 45:13absorbed in calculus and geometry, inspired by the professors there to read more widely
- 45:16English literature as so established in his own mind, to the literary standards which
- 45:21made him one of the first poets of his age. He botanized with Professor
- 45:25Stehelen. He made his famous ailed Pine journey with Gesner, and later organized
- 45:30the botanical specimens he had collected. During the same year. He made four
- 45:35more extended botanical trips in the Alps, another twenty three and two more twenty
- 45:38four maywhile he took up classical literature again, reading through from me Eneus to
- 45:44the age of the Barbarians, and not one reference to medical science seems to
- 45:49have escaped his notice. Every year saw the production of a number of poems,
- 45:52usually in honor of some special occasion. The Alps, written when Hallo
- 45:57was twenty, was a first representative of New German poetry, with his Geduncan
- 46:02uber venaft Ebrel, Goeben and Ann Groeben. He convinced the Basil group that
- 46:09German poetry could be poetry. At twenty three he published anonymously his first volume
- 46:15of poems, which was praised by such poets as Bodmer, Gottsched and Costno.
- 46:21Two years later a second editioner appeared and was approved by the reading public
- 46:24both in Germany and Switzerland. AIQ onren eighty relived coation of debt upon it
- 46:30two. Frederic Schelling seventeen seventy five to eighteen fifty four a celebrated German philosopher
- 46:38ai Q one hundred seventy five ai Q one hundred eighty one. Family standing.
- 46:45Shelling's four fathers were pastors, well educated and of high local reputation.
- 46:51Shelling's father, a man of exceptional abilities as a scholar and a teacher of
- 46:54scholars, was a distinguished Orientalist and a churchman who became a prelate. Mother
- 47:00was a woman of simple bourgeoises, tastes and prejudices. Two development to age
- 47:05seventeen one. Interests. Shelling's early interests appeared to have been wholly scholastic and
- 47:10intellectual. At the university, his only recreation was walking to education. After
- 47:17attending the local public school. Shelling passed at eight to the private instruction of
- 47:22his father and certain students of the parental theological seminary, as there was no
- 47:27Latin school in the neighborhood. Out of this superior tutelage he became grounded in
- 47:31the essentials of the ancient languages. At Tenny was sent to the public school
- 47:36at Nuttingen, of which his uncle was principal. Returning at eleven and three
- 47:39fourths he entered his father's seminary, where he pursued learning for four years.
- 47:44He was carefully instructed by two noted scholars, and definitely trained to be a
- 47:47scholar himself. Of his teachers, one praised the other resert favor, but
- 47:52both were excellent mentors. After the boy had been the youngest member of two
- 47:58classes and had seen in both graduate the father succeeded with some difficulty in arranging
- 48:04for the entrance of his becacious son at the Tubigin Theological School. Although young
- 48:08Shelling was three years under the usual age of admission to Tubajin, he pursued
- 48:13the usual course, winning the master's degree at an age when other bright youths
- 48:15were only beginning the course. Frederick was deeply influenced during his course by Shulder,
- 48:22a worldnown scholar and a former pupil of the elder Shilling. Three schools
- 48:28standing in progress. At ten and one third, Shelling passed the entrance test
- 48:34of the Notrogen school with extraordinary ease. It was on this occasion that the
- 48:38mother learned for the first time that her son was a gifted boy. At
- 48:43ten and three fourth, Shalling passed his first examination for admission to the seminary,
- 48:46and he he later the teaching and former father that Frederick was advanced far
- 48:50beyond his classmates and could learn nothing more in that school. The boy was
- 48:54two or three years too young to enter the regular theological preparatory school, and
- 48:59so he was to attend his father's classes. He young Frederick was associated with
- 49:04use of eighteen or nineteen, who were known at first by the presence of
- 49:07a child, soon saw that this lad was their equal knowledge and nobility.
- 49:12The older Shilling's colleague was in raptures over the boy's performance, finally believing that
- 49:16he saw in him the future support of Church orthodoxy. At thirteen s Shelling
- 49:22had acquired the scholar's method. At fifteen and a half, he had attained
- 49:24the crowning accomplishment of students of his day. He was able to write down
- 49:29dictated German directly in Latin hexametteris. He could also abstract or paraphrase Greek,
- 49:34Hebrew or Arabic. Its first philosophical readings seemed to him so clear and comprehensible
- 49:39that he thought, perhaps a little arrogantly, that he must have missed the
- 49:43point. When he came to Leibnitz, he found there was still something to
- 49:47learn. At Duberten, Shelling was recognized as far superior to in his class.
- 49:53As a disponant, he was distinguished above all his fellows, frequently confounding
- 49:58his teachers, always ready to furnish his classmates with points for debate. Four
- 50:05friends and associates. In his earlier years, Schelling's associates were his parents,
- 50:09his sister, his teacher's fellow students, and his father's pupils. At Tubingen,
- 50:15he was in distinguished company. His intimate friends were five years older than
- 50:19himself, included Harber, a man of superior mathematical ability, Holderlin Poet Wrens,
- 50:24the former student in Hegel's class, and Hegel then regarded as a most
- 50:29intelligent, clear headed and able fellow five reading. After a strictly supervised course
- 50:35of classical reading, Shelling, at twelve or thirteen had access for the first
- 50:38time to a library of fiction. The anxious concern of his father was aroused
- 50:43when for a time the hithero model Lad was quite carried away by the new
- 50:46discovery. There was, however, little need for anxiety. The boy's zeal
- 50:51soon waned, and he returned to his classics and scholararly works in his father's
- 50:55extensive library. He gained before he was fifteen and a half a widers with
- 51:00the Greek and Latin writers. He had also read much on modern philosophy and
- 51:04had begun Plato see also two six servant production achievement. At ten eleven,
- 51:12Selling wrote innumerable compositions in Greek and Latin, including metrical pieces in Latin.
- 51:15Our twelve visas as secluded a discussion of the evidences of the divine origin of
- 51:20the scriptures, verses on the historical fulfillment of Biblical prophecy, Latin and Greek
- 51:23compositions, Latin districts and Sapphix strophs, A metrical translation after wealth metrical German
- 51:31versions of Plutarch and Didorus, Latin translations of Greek epigrams and original Latin epigrams.
- 51:39At thirteen or fourteen, during his vacations, Chilling wrote a youthful but
- 51:44really scholarly monograph on the History of the Cloister Bebbenhausen. Part one gives a
- 51:49description of the Cloister and its surroundings. Part two gives history with his ax
- 51:53source references as some critical comet and a pennis contains German and Latin epitaphs and
- 51:59inscriptions which the little paleologist, in long hours on hands and kneades, had
- 52:04deciphered in the dark Arcades. Note books are preserved from Schilling's teens, and
- 52:07they show not only such soreness in the knowledge of Latin grammar as is seldom
- 52:14found at the end of the lower seminary, but an addition, a distinct
- 52:17gift for Latin style. They contain a German translation of a considerable part of
- 52:22the Hebdomadar, as well as the Greek rendering of certain portions, skillfully executed
- 52:28Latin verses, hexameters, and ditchits essays on themes drawn from theology, history
- 52:32of philosophy, ethnology, Psychology and Ethics. Of fifteen or perhaps Venulier,
- 52:39Schilling wrote two long Latin poems. The first, in eighty one districts,
- 52:45was addressed to England. He gives a description of the land of freedom and
- 52:47characterize a number of the men who made her great. The verses in the
- 52:52proud and dominant spirit of the English are not unworthy of a poet. To
- 52:55this work was appended a long page of Greek hexameters on the same subject.
- 53:00The second daem poem is a scholarly work on the great mother language. Another
- 53:05production of Merit was he annotated Thusidizes, completed by Shelling early in his sixteenth
- 53:09year. Latin comments on pindozo Is, preparred about the same time, were
- 53:14the result of wide reading and clever interpretation among independent studies. Carried on at
- 53:20Dubingen in his middle teens was a collection of Platonic myths with appendent translations.
- 53:24As Some of the works included seven evidences of Plicositie C two, two,
- 53:30three, four, five and six ai i Q. One hundred and seventy
- 53:36five was it of coation of debt appointed two three development from seventeen to twenty
- 53:40six. At seventeen Shilling presented and defended with brilliance his disputation for the master's
- 53:46degree, the subject of material of which he had, contrary to the usual
- 53:50custom, chosen himself. His first published work was written the same year,
- 53:54Myths, Historical Legends and Philosophymes of the Ancient World. Was already regarded by
- 54:00Hegel and others as a champion of enlightened theology and scholastic rationalism. Gradually,
- 54:06philosophical studies began to ressorb his entire interest. He became a disciple of cat
- 54:12and recognized in Peach a kittered spirit. In nineteen his second essay, on
- 54:16the Possibility of a Philosophical System was published by Fitch. The work placed its
- 54:22author in the front rank of living philosophical writers. His next publication was Letters
- 54:27on Dogmatism and Criticism. Shelling was granted the theological degree of twenty, having,
- 54:32as before selected and worked up in a penalty the material for his thesis.
- 54:37The eminent professor of Store gave high praise to the performance of the brilliant
- 54:40young candidate. During the year appeared the ego as the Principles of Philosophy,
- 54:45which the teachings of which are blended with those of Spinoza. Owing to the
- 54:50high pressure of work. During his last year's study, Shelling's health began to
- 54:53fail. Heckel counseled care and rest, but instead of following this advice,
- 54:58Shelling obtained a post at Tudor, and this he held for two years.
- 55:02During these years he published a number of philosophical papers. His tutorial duties talk
- 55:07him to Jenna and Weimar. At twenty three he was appointed professor at the
- 55:12University of Jenna, where he was closely associated with Fighan Hegel. He met
- 55:16Gertha and Schiller was attreated by the former, but repelled by the latter.
- 55:22During the period of Shilling's professorship at Jenna, the university reached the zenith of
- 55:25its philosophical fame. Shillings's personality, his eager, self conscious yet powerful genius,
- 55:31bade him a true Rahmatic type. His advent of Jenna was greeted with
- 55:35enthusiasm by the Romanticists, and twenty five he had become their acknowledged leader.
- 55:40A i Q one pint eighty will live coasted it upon it two and a
- 55:45section thirty four