Today's installment concludes Goethe and the Intellectual Revolt of Germany,our selection from German Thought During the Last Two Hundred Years by

Palermo, during a walk in the public garden amid the Southern vegetation, revealed to him the law of the metamorphosis of plants.Continuing Goethe

While Goethe lived outside the struggle for life, outside the competition and contact of practical activity, in the contemplation of nature and art,

Man is the last and highest link in nature; his task is to understand what she aims at in him and then to fulfil her intentions.Continuing Goethe

Goethe, indeed, modified, or at least cleared up, his early views under the influence of a deeper study of nature and the sight of ancient and