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the romantic school : he strongly denounces their 

 aberrations, but he fully acknowledges the promise 

 which lay in Solger's prematurely terminated philo- 

 sophical career, and he admits that Tieck himself^ 

 though always talking about artistic irony, forgets 

 the same in his excellent appreciation and exposi- 

 tion of great poetical creations, such as those of 

 Shakespeare. 



It is therefore needless to dwell at any length on 

 these lucubrations of the romantic writers ; it is more 

 interesting for our purpose to follow up the more serious 

 developments of Schelling's and Hegel's ideas in the 

 later aesthetics of the nineteenth century. 



II. 



One of the most important questions in the philosophy 

 of the Beautiful had come to the front in the specula- 

 tions of Schelling, and still more in those of Hegel, 

 namely, the relation which exists between Art and 

 Eeligion, or between the Beautiful and the Spiritual. 

 38. This problem was taken up by Christian Hein- 

 wetsse.' rich Weisse and, in the spirit of his philosophy, by 

 Lotze. 



As Lotze himself has given, in his ' History of 

 ^.sthetics in Germany,' a very full analysis of Weisse's 

 teaching, as much in its development out of Hegel's 

 philosophy as in its less important differences from his 

 own views, I wish to refer mainly to that exposition ; 

 the more so as Weisse's own works are now inaccessible 



