4. It was through the life-work of Goethe and Schiller, and their many friends and contemporaries -- through the development of the Kantian æsthetic judg- ment, limited by abstraction and subjectivity, into an objective concrete content which grows with the life and mind of man, that the data of modern aesthetic were finally prepared for incorporation in the answer to its problem. Their revival of the German theatre, as a form of art, gave the world little of permanent value beyond the two parts of Faust; but their reflective synthesis of the Greek and the Briton, 1 by which they continued the work of Lessing, typifies the revolution which I have attempted to trace in the principal spheres of aesthetic appreciation. If no new art crowned this revolution -- for music was not directly affected by it -- yet a new philo- sophy did; and it was amid the fermentation of this last ten years, whose tendencies I have been attempting to sketch, that the first great organic thinkers of the nineteenth century gathered the convictions of their early manhood.
Schiller's verses on the representation of Voltaire Mahomet at Weimar. See p. 238supra.
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Publication Information: Book Title: A History of Aesthetic. Contributors: Bernard Bosanquet - author. Publisher: George Allen & Unwin. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1892. Page Number: 316.
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