OF THE BEAUTIFUL. 65 



Weisse's peculiar development of a conception we can 

 trace back to the writings of Schelling, Solger, and 

 Hegel, it will be most useful for my purpose to appeal 

 to Lotze's own statement, which is to be found in 39. 

 two tracts (1845 and 1847), but more concisely and version of 



Weisse's 



clearly in the syllabus of his lectures on ^Esthetics, doctrine, 

 delivered during his professorship at Gottingen, for the 

 last time in the year 1865. 1 He there refers to the 

 fundamental aspect no doubt suggested by Weisse 

 which forms the foundation of the whole of his specula- 

 tion, and which he repeats in all his more important 

 writings. With a desire to vindicate for the Beautiful 

 not merely a subjective existence in the human soul but 

 an absolute value and important connections in the real 

 world of men and nature, he says : " The real world shows 

 us three interwoven regions or powers viz., first, a 

 realm of general laws which impress us as absolutely 

 necessary, which govern everything that is real, but 

 through their very generality produce for themselves 



be the subject not only of the has done, to the importance of 

 thought but also of the moral ap- 

 preciation and sesthetical enjoyment 

 of personal minds or spirits, form- 



Lotze's introduction of these terms 

 into philosophical literature. Cf. 

 supra, note to p. 408, vol. iii. 



ing a feature in their living experi- l The two Tracts appeared orig- 



ence. I cannot find that, even inally in a collective publication, 



in the latest form of Weisse's ' Gottinger Studien,' with the re- 



^Esthetics, this point or the differ- spective titles : ' Ueber den Begriff 



ence in this respect with Lotze, der Schonheit ' and 'Ueber Beding- 



rnentioned by Seydel in his appre- ungen der Kunstschonheit.' The 



ciation of their respective philoso- Lecture Notes on ^Esthetics were 



phies, is brought out. (See 'Religion published after the Syllabus, pre- 

 und Wissenschaft,' pp. 84 sqq., 132 ; pared by Lotze for his Course in 



1. ) As, however, the introduc- 

 tion of definite words, such as 

 Value and Worth, has done so 

 much in history to characterise and 

 even to direct courses of thought, 



the year 1856, by E. Rehnisch in 

 the year 1884. The two earlier 

 Tracts are reprinted in Peipers' edi- 

 tion of Lotze's 'Kleine Schriften,' 

 vols. i. and ii. 



it is well to point, as Windelband 



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