tively. The greater number of these changes are
purely stylistic, but there are some important revisions
of the thought also. I have not translated those foot-
notes of Schiele's which contain the purely stylistic
changes, since these can be of interest only to a reader
of German, but I have included in notes of my own all
the material changes. (See pp. 104 - 112.)

Most of the English literature on Schleiermacher
has been concerned primarily with his work as a theo-
logian. The philosophical current underlying this
work has scarcely been tapped. In my Introduction
I have tried to characterize the romantic spirituality
of the Soliloquies, to show its origins in the growth
of our culture and its relations to modern religious
currents. This theme seems to me to be the most sig-
nificant one in the first half of Schleiermacher's life,
that is from 1768-1800.

The second half of his life, from 1800-1834, is an-
other story, and one that I have not attempted to tell on
the same scale, partly because it is so different a story
as to require another book, and still more because the
materials for it have not yet been adequately sifted
by those who know the sources to make its general
significance accessible. The materials themselves, i. e.,
the systematic philosophical works of Schleiermacher's
later years, in the present state of their editing and
interpretation are of interest to the special student
only. For the use of such special students, who can
not read German. I have added an appendix, giving a
brief account of the dialectical development of Schlei-
ermacher's philosophy, especially in his later years.
(See pp. 113 ff.)

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