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.
Introductory Note: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heroism, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introductory Note: Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch. IV), by Adam Smith
Introductory Note: Thomas Hood
Poems, by Thomas Hood
Introductory Note: Alessandro Manzoni
I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed, Ch. I), by Alessandro Manzoni
Introductory Note: Alexander Pope
An Essay on Man (Epistle IV), by Alexander Pope
Introductory Note: Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnets, by William Shakespeare
Introductory Note: Epictetus
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, by Epictetus
Introductory Note: Hans Christian Andersen
Little Ida’s Flowers, by Hans Christian Andersen
Introductory Note: Socrates and Plato
The Apology of Socrates, by Plato
Introductory Note: Ernest Renan
The Poetry of the Celtic Races (Ch. II), by Ernest Renan
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