If
I come on the belied nature, or how should I call this spectre of
actuality! Yea justly! No! with these men armed in mail against
every poetic truth, we must not parley; the great fools' conspiracy
of that actuality-spectre defends with mock reasoning its Turkish
states'-conduct, before which certainly the revelation of the Ideal
withdraws into a poetic dream-region.' But whilst the existing state
in itself is merely null, whilst the transgressor against this state
is not incorporated with its authorizations with its directions and
tendencies, so is the transgressor ever the accuser of the state
itself. In general, must the state draw up to itself at least the
lowest class, and not let it sink in mire; and Bettina lets the Frau
Rath make the proposal, instead of shutting up the felon in
penitentiaries, to instruct him in the sciences, as from his native
energies, from his unbroken powers, great performances might be
looked for. But in order also to show practically the truth of her
assertions, that the present state does not fulfil its duties
especially to the poorest class, at the close of the book are
inserted, `Experiences of a young Swiss in Voigtland.
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