Letter XXV WHILST man, in his first physical condition, is only passively affected by the world of sense, he is still entirely...

Letter XXIII I TAKE up the thread of my researches, which I broke off only to apply the principles I laid down to practical art and the...

Letter XXII ACCORDINGLY, if the æsthetic disposition of the mind must be looked upon in one respect as nothing—that is, when we confine...

Letter XX THAT freedom is an active and not a passive principle results from its very conception; but that liberty itself should be an...

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the...

Most esteemed Fathers, I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so...