Who has ever thought the arts had anything to do with freedom? Schiller did. Forced by a German noble to enter a military school, he escaped. Struggling to achieve freedom, he wrote a series of letters on the relation of art to freedom. (Volume 32, Harvard Classics)
Friedrich von Schiller died May 9, 1805.
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On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey
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