XIX
German Culture
You know our Germany : it is still uncivilized.
JOHANN  REUCHLIN,   1455-1522
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Our worthy Germans are still only in the dawn of culture.
frederick the great, 8 September, 1775
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The German public has no longer the unity of the childish
fancy, and still less the unity of a completed education. It is
half-way between the two, and this is a glorious period for
bad authors, but for that reason it is all the worse for those
who do not merely want to earn money.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER,   15  May,   1795
There is nothing cruder than the taste of the modern German
public, and to work for the transformation of this miserable
taste, instead of taking it as my model, is the serious design
of my life.	friedrich schiller, 3 August, 1795
The German forms and formalities are like the long clothes
which, if one falls into the water, keep one up for a time, but
then drag one down ... I prefer a naked swimmer.
JEAN  PAUL FR.   RICHTER,   l8o8
Taste is a euphemism. Germans have no taste, because they
have no euphemism and are too crude.
WOLFGANG  GOETHE,   1813
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