The World as Will and Idea, Vol. II — Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. Haldane & Kemp

and almost every one of them has his own. "Wit G. E. Schulze, for example, the subject is called " Gtwi hegriff" the predicate " Beilegungsbegriff ; " then there " Beilegungsschlusse," " VoraussetzungsscMilsse," and "Bntgegensetzungsschliisse ; " the judgments have " Grosse," " BeschaffenJieit," " Verhaltniss" and " Zuverldssigkeit" ijt., quantity, quality, relation, and modality.

The same perverse influence of this Germanising mania is to be found in all the sciences.

The Latin and Greek expressions have the further advantage that they stamp the scientific conception as such, and distinguish it from the words oi common intercourse, and the ideas which cling to then: through association ; while, for example, " Speisebrei " instead of chyme seems to refer to the food of little children and " Lungensack " instead of pleura, and " Herzbeutel ' instead of pericardium seem to have been invented 03 butchers rather than anatomists.

Besides this, the mos immediate necessity of learning the ancient languages de pends upon the old termini technici, and they are mort and more in danger of being neglected through the use 0 living languages in learned investigations. But if it come to this, if the spirit of the ancients bound up with thei languages disappears from a liberal education, then coarse ness, insipidity, and vulgarity will take possession of th whole of literature.

For the works of the ancients ar the pole-star of every artistic or literary effort ; if it set they are lost. Even now we can observe from the misei able and puerile style of most writers that they hav never written Latin.1 The study of the classical authoi is very properly called the study of Humanity, for throug it the student first becomes a man again, for he entei 2the ancients is that it preserves study of the ancients all our lif us from verbosity ; for the ancients although reducing the time devot* always take pains to write concisely to it. The ancients knew that v and pregnantly, and the error of al- ought not to write as we spea most all moderns is verbosity, which The moderns, on the other ban the most recent try to make up for are not even ashamed to print le by suppressing syllables and letters, tures they have delivered.

into the world which was still free from all the absurdities of the Middle Ages and of romanticism, which afterwards penetrated so deeply into mankind in Europe that even now every one comes into the world covered with it, and has first to strip it off simply to become a man again. Think not that your modern wisdom can ever supply the place of that initiation into manhood; ye are not, like the Greeks and Eomans, born freemen, unfettered sons of nature. Ye are first the sons and heirs of the barbarous Middle Ages and of their madness, of infamous priestcraft, and of half-brutal, half-childish chivalry. Though both now gradually approach their end, yet ye cannot yet stand on your own feet. Without the school of the ancients your literature will degenerate into vulgar gossip and dull philistinism. Thus for all these reasons it is my wellintended counsel that an end be put at once to the Germanising mania condemned above.