This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE in THE TRANSITION TO THE PSYCHIC CHARACTER OF THE GERMAN PRESENT; UNIVERSAL MECHANISM OF PSYCHIC PERIODS OF TRANSITION We have outlined the development of the German people from its very beginning to the nineteenth century, and have noted how all outward events get the impress of their time ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE in THE TRANSITION TO THE PSYCHIC CHARACTER OF THE GERMAN PRESENT; UNIVERSAL MECHANISM OF PSYCHIC PERIODS OF TRANSITION We have outlined the development of the German people from its very beginning to the nineteenth century, and have noted how all outward events get the impress of their time and epoch. We saw that, after an age of symbolism in psychic life, say down to the third century A.D., there followed an era in which everything conformed to certain types, say down to the Salic line of emperors; that this again was followed by the conventionalism of the Hohenstaufen and of the later Middle Ages; that afterwards the mighty era of hidiyiduaUsm set in with the Eeformation and the Renaissance, which was in turn succeeded by the so-called age of the Auf klarung; that finally there ensued, taking its origin about the middle of the eighteenth century, the era of subjectivism, -- including the movements of Sentimentalism and Storm and Stress, of Classicism and Romanticism, -- the first period of which ended about the year 1870. We belong to-day to its second period, which, it seems, is already approaching its end. In this rapid enumeration of the vast psychic changes which are included in the course of these ages, we have always tried to follow up one DEGREESardcular_mqment, paying more and more attention to it as the sources continued to increase, the moment in which the transition of one age into the other took place. Our presentiment, at first vague, -- typical events of the psychic mechanism of transition constantly recurring, -- finally took the shape of definite assumption, so that to test it by facts seemed to be essential. It is evident at first sight that recent facts which mark another transition are of special importance for
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