New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-29

Eentuu. In bis organization there a rich miug ing
OF powers. What he undertook he went a. with zeal
ths, rallied bis whole nature to tbs service with a
volume OF Impetus that bore him on with burningve-
lociiy, and with resolution that obstacle could stay
HIS undertakings were high, bis aspir atoms noble on
wId, onward up~md, upward might have been mis-
device WIN all this hery enthusiasm, this impatient
activity, he undertook nass ht raIhy he was al once
npstuous and prudent He self-confden but with
CONSEQUENCES OF his gifts he united an Unsuitable thirst
tor better than ne could furnish His ideal so ex
allied kept him ever learning and expanding Goethe
was often astolEbed when they would meet after not
very long sepsrtion 70 find what proges. he had made
In the interval His Intellect was under the spur OF hs
poetic expansions fed by his hearty impuses. lis mind
was kept az red heat His nature earnest aud even
stern. n there IVES in him spordvene's hunor,
neither there any litleness His love OF fame
strong. but be sought to crafty 1t by lofty laoOrs
Settlers Intellect was broad and massive not subtle
nor penetrstye Hence, with all hi. miteral Of sym.
pshy and Unborn passion, wherewiih he energzed and
diversified hin characters, they lack individuality and
compsctness In the most finished therels certain ho
ioSness. II not much, that they distinctly
enough dierenced from the other. that each
not tightly knit up into it,et as In Shakspere and
Goethe. Schiller not the closest, most scrupuous
thinker and thence In creating characters be could rot
thoroughly interpenetrn.e the animal and sert
mentsl vitality with the intellectual, which inter
penetration must be in order that each parsonage
have bis definite rounded vvacious existence. Nor
Is the action in his dramatic structures always
bound up In the severest logical chain. Schiller
was not Poet Of the highest order be not pro
pheuc not lie did not denver truths, or enOo
dy beauty in creations much above the standard Of
bis age hat they had wait for higher culture to be
fully valued His geneTaliz have not the unfading
brliancy which those truths have that wrought In
the OF emotion by the iDtensest action OF
Between his intellect and bis sensiblsy there
that perfect accord which makes the offspring OF their
union at veracous and ideal and elastic from the
compactness Of their constituents His grasp Of inte
lect was not so strong was his imaginative swing
When the cast put into my hands what first struck
me was the want OF prominence in the upper part OF the
forehesd
Speaking of bis early fiaht from Wurtemberg schl.
Ter describes the JOY he felt In having thencefor ward
other than the Public To an ardent young Poet
II could lot but be 10Y akin 10 that of moral
on to escape from the suiiocaOn of tyranny to find
binsef rid of King and face face with t1e
broad multitude But there is sill higher Tribunal
through which the Public Is 10 the end surely
and permanently won than by direct appeals " Itself
the tribunal Of Truth To this and this alone the true
Artist feels himself amenabe For the Artists function
IT, to purify the sensioty Of his fellow men, to instruct
them by awakening poetic ad nrson to chasen their
taste BY creations In harmony with the absolute true
and beautiful he develops and cuiyates the lstent
thec capabiy Of the lila part TO he teacher,
not fstterer or prossc puryeyor. Great Artists are
always above their Public. Did Shskspere suit him
self TO the common judgment of his day SO little so,
that thu shrewdest of bis cotempores dscerned
not half the meaning aud merit of his wonderful, crea
tons. He hmself-sublime isoation-was the only one
OF his time who knew their transcendent worth To
think that for more than century there In the
whole world but one who entirely Dyed the Tenn
pest Lear who capable OF fully loving ImOgen
and juliet and that man was 5hastpere. What kidd of
appeal = the general udg ment of Charles the seconds
generation was Parade Los, Wordsworth scorned tho
public who laughed a. him, and having survived half
century bis earlier Poems had the personal enjoyment
Of Hrdy justice, his genius being ackn ,wledged oy
more emil h'ened public than that which first so
codly greeted him, his later contemporaries psylng him
reverence true Priest 10 the service OF Beauty and
Truth lie had to make the taste by which he sp.
precated. Goethe, mentioning in a letter to Schiller,
the limited sale OF one of bis best Poems Hermann and
DOyOthtd, comforts himself by adding lrOnics y,-"we
make money by our bad books" And Schiller himself.
who always wrote Ia pursuit of a refined ideal, says
somewhere that the Artits mission 10 scourge rather
than to truckle to the spirit of bis sge.
tits much for an to possess several eminent qualities
that keep him high level. Schiller was upborne by
bis poetic nature and his love Of humanity He had
the deepest sebsbi!ty for truth Thus although under
bis poetic generous Inspirations he appreciated and
practically funllcd the Artists function bis Impulse
when first freed was toward lame From the
source,-that lie, the Absence of arched rotundty
10 the region Of conscenousness-I would infer want
Of Iunctuality in engagement literary and other. and
venture to conjecture, that by this falling his friend
Goethe was occasionally somewhat put out
Among the precious relics the bedstead wherein
Schiller slept and wherein he died AT the early age OF
forysix often night he put his fee, into tub Of cold
water placed under his writing table In order thereby
to heep himself awake. He worked his brain the ut.
teImOsi aud wore himself with the noblest labor II
easy 10 figure him SEE ted at hts desk with "vis.
ionary eye and furrowed brow, intently celebrating
thoughts which bis pen hurredy seized when knock,
brewing from him unwilling "Herein" he would
lit bis eyes with look of almost sternnes for the
welcome interruper and then suddenly his cOunte-
would relax and beam, the tall figure of Goethe
advanced Through the opening DOOR aud ri,ing with
eager motion, be would greet bis friend with cordial
words and hand grasp. And the fever Of his mind
would subside. The calm power Of sefpossing Goethe
would soothe him without lowering his tone and rhen
after Goethes departure, he set himself again 10 his
work. Il would be with the refres bel feeling of one
who, toward the cose OF a midsunmer's day, has Just
bathed IN the shady nooA OF deep, tranquil stream.
On eide Of the desks sliding chess board, TO be
drawn cut when wanted. Hare, the guardian of the
house declared, Goethe and Schiller sometimes played.
This refuse 10 credit and put IL down false ira
oitiOn. Games-even those Involving bodily exercise
the of the vacant and would believe
that two such ful.braned men, whose interviews
to them both epivening thought breeders would
dedicate their t6te 6te meetings to this solemn vol
ity, this Ingenious emptiness this SILENT sapless pas
time Still against the circum,tsntial conclusions OF
reason there was the sliding chess board.
Mr.. Calvert has been a student Of the writings
of Charles Fourier to whom he accords high
place among modern social theorists. His opin-
ions on this point are expressed in graphic de-
scrptiOn of the Office Of the Democratic Paci-
6que which at the time of his visit to Paris was
a fayorte.
RENDEZVOUS OF THF PHALANSTERIANs.
II halfpast two when dnd myself again on the
other side Of the river, and aightng at the corner of
the Quay Voltsire, walk into the ds Beanne No
Is the first sste way the risht, entering which
cross broad court ascend few steps 10 tbs large
open portal, turn to the right and having passed
through two doors In succession have before me In
spacious shelfturrshed rooD, several clerks silently
al work behind the wire netting that In Fren ID Offices
separates the vlsiter from the inmates Invading this
precinct with Interchange Of ssu ,on with the occu
Pars lissue out ct the opposite angle and traversing
short, dark passage enter by small door another
pscious room with tall Windows the ground looking
garden. Al an enormous ova table In the middle
OF the room, covered with green baize and bestrown
with IeUtpsp ers, two bearded men are writing and
another u reading ourns sofa on one SIDE Is pos
sessed II its full length by recumbent fourth, while
two three others, before tbs coal embsrs of
the large fireplace smoking short clay pipes Con.
verfsiion is ntu. and then RISING for few mo.
msIts into earnest Continuity Int the sGuc,pri Of
the writer's for Tire Democratic Pdcf7ne and the rem
cezyousofthe PhalAnsterilas. Ga the msntel piece Is
a bust Of Fourier.
Ihese believe in social order 20 be found
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