This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...These move about everywhere, because the people do not desire a capital city and because in this way needs are better recognised and equality is preserved in administration and in public life. Equality is striven after only in things of chief importance, in secondary matters each man is to retain his liberty. A police ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...These move about everywhere, because the people do not desire a capital city and because in this way needs are better recognised and equality is preserved in administration and in public life. Equality is striven after only in things of chief importance, in secondary matters each man is to retain his liberty. A police department is established, but no judiciary, for the present. The members of the federation may have foreseen that for a long time to come there would be no lawsuits. The punishment of crimes rests with the police, but only with the co-operation of a jury.34 Brandy shops and circulating libraries are not endured. Goethe looked upon both as poisonous institutions. Every man who desired to be received into the federation must have some specialty in which he is thorough. Mere sentiment, as in the case of other organisations, is not sufficient, especially as it cannot be tested. All are to be impressed with the greatest respect for time 'as the highest gift of God and nature." To remind the people constantly of the importance of this gift clocks are set up everywhere, which by the aid of the optical telegraph indicate the hours and quarter-hours throughout the day and night. Again in this point Goethe showed a wonderful knowledge of the modern world, the world of labour. It was he who told the disinherited that time was their great inheritance: 9#em grbteil mie )errlid), totit uttb breit! (r)ie Sett ift mem SBefijj, mem Slcfer ift bie Sett. This couplet appeared as a motto to the first edition of the novel. "It is better to do the idlest thing in the world than to sit idle for half an hour," is one of the morals that Goethe copied from Sterne in the Betrachtungen im Sinne der Wanderer. But greater than making the most of time is .
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Good. Size: 0x0x0; SET of 3 volumes. No dust jackets. Ex-library books with typical stickers and stampings. RF tag removed from the back of the books which took some paper with it. No Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping. -3a-
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Fine. 3 volume-like new Hardcover. No dust jacket. Minor cover wear. Clean unmarked text. Tight binding. ** Because of weight/size, this cannot ship internationally ** ** WE SHIP DAILY (Mon-Fri) ** Free Tracking Information.
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Good. Hard Cover-Good-No dust jacket if issued-Other than discoloration to text in volumes 1 & 3 books are clean and tight-Light cover wear-(SHIPPING IN U.S. AND BY MEDIA RATE ONLY)-Volume 1 1749-1788: From birth to the return from Italy; Volume 2 1788-1815 From Italian journey to the wars of liberation; Volume 3 1815-1832 From the congress of Vienna to the poet's death. -Index. -(3 Volume Set)-1321 pages.
