200 PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT. 



in an unacademical style, intelligible to the general 

 reader ; but also it is to be attributed to less com- 

 mendable qualities — the pamphleteering, or as it has 

 been termed, the ' Feuilleton - style.' The same had 

 been introduced into political journalism by Borne, 

 and had been adopted and perfected by Heinrich 

 Heine. It unfortunately found its way into the dis- 

 cussion of philosophical subjects in the above - men- 

 tioned Eeview through prominent writers, among whom 

 Feuerbach was the most original. It was adopted also 

 by Schopenhauer in his later polemical writings, by 

 E. von Hartmann, and in the most extreme form in 

 recent times, by Friedrich Nietzsche ; it has done in- 

 calculable harm, and disturbed the calm judiciousness of 

 philosophic discussion, by introducing the element of 

 personal abuse, invective, and irritation.-^ 



Nevertheless it must be admitted that Feuerbach did 

 great service to German thought by lucidly presenting 

 to thinking readers the anthropological, as against the 

 theological standpoint in all philosophical problems, and 

 this as a possible conclusion to be drawn from the 



^ On this subject a great deal j haustive treatment in the 3rd 



has been written by German his- volume (pp. 714 sqq.) and 4th 



torians such as G. G. Gervinus in volume ('Das Junge Deutschland,' 



the 8th volume of his ' Geschichte pp. 407 sqq.) of H. von Treitschke's 



des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts ' 'Deutsche Geschichte imNeuuzehn- 



(1866, p. 180 sqq.), where he con- i ten Jahrhundert' (1885 and 1889). 



trasts the political and literary Also Richard Mej^er's 'Die Deutsche 



satire in Borne's and Heine's writ- Litteratur des Neunzehnten Jahr- 



ings with that contained in those hunderts' (1900, pp. 52 sqq.) To 



of Lord Byron, who, as he shows, an English reader these and many 



had an enormous influence on the other utterances and criticisms of 



Continent. See also on the political eminent German historians will 



side of the Hegelian philosophy lose some of their efi'ect through 



and the deterioration of literary an unfortunate admixture of a 



style through Reviews, pamphlets, more or less patent spirit of anti- 



and Feuilletons, the pretty ex- i eemitism. 



