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Harvard Classics, Vol. 32

Literary and Philosophical Essays

French, German and Italian

The 13 works of 7 continental authors span 3 centuries of philosophy from Montaigne to Schiller and literary criticism from Sainte-Beuve and Mazzini.

Bibliographic Record

Contents

NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Introductory Note

The Author to the Reader

That We Should Not Judge of Our Happiness Until after Our Death

That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to Die

Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson

Of Friendship

Of Bookes

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Introductory Note

Translated by E. Lee

Montaigne

What Is a Classic?

Ernest Renan

Introductory Note

The Poetry of the Celtic Races. Translated by W. G. Hutchison

Introduction

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Introductory Note

Translated by W. G. Hutchison

The Education of The Human Race

J. C. Friedrich von Schiller

Introductory Note

Letters upon the Æsthetic Education of Man

Letter I

Letter II

Letter III

Letter IV

Letter V

Letter VI

Letter VII

Letter VIII

Letter IX

Letter X

Letter XI

Letter XII

Letter XIII

Letter XIV

Letter XV

Letter XVI

Letter XVII

Letter XVIII

Letter XIX

Letter XX

Letter XXI

Letter XXII

Letter XXIII

Letter XXIV

Letter XXV

Letter XXVI

Letter XXVII

Immanuel Kant

Introductory Note

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

Translated by T. K. Abbott

Preface

First Section: Transition from the Common Rational Knowledge of Morality to the Philosophical

Second Section: Transition from Popular Moral Philosophy to the Metaphysic of Morals

Third Section: Transition from Metaphysic of Morals to the Critique of Pure Practical Reason

Giuseppe Mazzini

Introductory Note

Byron and Goethe