Produced by Adam Buchbinder, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) Every attempt has been made to replicate the original as printed. Some typographical errors have been corrected; a list follows the text. No attempt has been made to correct the German spelling. The footnotes follow the text. (etext transcriber’s note) THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE, AND PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE, IN A _Course of Lectures_. BY FREDERICK VON SCHLEGEL. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY THE REV. A. J. W. MORRISON, M.A. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, 82 CLIFF STREET. 1848. CONTENTS. PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. LECTURE I. Page Of the thinking Soul as the Center of Consciousness, and of the false Procedure of Reason 7 LECTURE II. Of the loving Soul as the Center of the moral Life; and of Marriage 28 LECTURE III. Of the Soul’s Share in Knowledge, and of Revelation 48 LECTURE IV. Of the Soul in relation to Nature 70 LECTURE V. Of the Soul of Man in relation to God 95 LECTURE VI. Of the Wisdom of the divine Order of Things in Nature, and of the Relation of Nature to the other Life and to the Invisible World 115 LECTURE VII. Of the divine Wisdom as manifested in the Realm of Truth, and of the Conflict of the Age with Error 141 LECTURE VIII. Of the divine Order in the History of the World and the Relation of States 162 LECTURE IX. Of the true Destination of Philosophy: and of the apparent Schism but essential Unity between a right Faith and highest Certainty, as the Center of Light and Life in the Consciousness 185 LECTURE X. Of the twofold Spirit of Truth and Error in Science; of the Conflict of Faith with Infidelity 206 LECTURE XI. Of the Relation of Truth and Science to Life, and of Mind in its application to Reality 232 LECTURE XII. Of the symbolical Nature and Constitution of Life with reference to Art and the moral Relations of Man 256