SOUNDINGS

¹ Certain—C adds: but tries to reckon entirely with unknown quantities.

² The inevitable—C: A constant.

³ What is truly human—C: reason.

⁴ Those feelings … brutes—The lower feelings and impressions, renouncing those that are most distinctive of humanity.

⁵ Precincts—B and C add: ,and losing true self-respect.

⁶ Circle of humanity—C: community he deserted.

⁷ Discovered humanity—C: received the vision of humanity.

⁸ Humanity—C: reason.

⁹ Into … brutishness—C: to the unconnected and confused impressions of animal sense.

¹⁰ Humanity—C: life.

¹¹ By reason of his—In so far as each has his own.

¹² That man—C: that the inner man.

¹³ Of one … same—In each case like unto all other individuals.

¹⁴ Thus … mankind—Thus man’s awakening is ever gradual and not always complete.

¹⁵ Rising to—C: looking up to.

¹⁶ Which … herself—With the development of which freedom has identified herself.

¹⁷ Expressing … higher being—C: revealing to be sure all the elements of humanity, but only in a crude mass, like a mineral which has lacked the conditions for its characteristic crystallization, if they have not grasped the idea of individual uniqueness.

¹⁸ To view … friction—That humanity should exist merely as a homogeneous mass, split up externally to be sure into units, but these all inwardly alike. I was incredulous that the spiritual uniqueness of individuals should be a merely transient phenomenon produced by external contacts and frictions, but without any inner foundation. (There are minor variations in B and C. See pp. 123, 126ff., 138ff. for the development of this theme: the basis of individuality in Schleiermacher’s thought.)

¹⁹ All—C: all variations.

²⁰ Alone—C: in particular.

²¹ Whether … from it—Whether he may to a certain extent separate his individual being again from universal humanity. (There are minor differences between B and C.)

²² Knowing it?—B and C add: What often appears to be such an inner change is certainly either mere appearance, caused by a change in outward circumstances, or else it is a correction of our first impressions, revealing more deeply the inner nature of someone whom we had at first misjudged through haste. (C adds further) But as for my own self-knowledge, above all.

²³ Are concealed—C: are harmoniously concealed.

²⁴ I am convinced … seldom reaches—Of all differences in human behavior and vocation, which reveal differences in men’s natures too, the one that strikes me most, as being pertinent to my own case, is the following. There is too great a contrast between developing one’s inner humanity into distinctness by manifold activity, on the one hand, and on the other, projecting it into works of art which clearly convey to everyone what one is trying to express, for both of these gifts to be granted to the same individual in an equal measure. (Cf. pp. 87-88.) Of course, he who is still in the outer court of moral development, who fears as an initiate to limit himself by firm decision, will like to combine something of both in his crude essays at life with the result that he will not go far in either direction. Most lives are in this state of indetermination. But whoever has entered a little further into the sanctuary of morality will soon attach a preference to one of these two courses, and will preserve but few connections with the other. Not till the very end of life’s development do the two again seem to approach each other, and to combine them is the privilege of a perfection that man seldom reaches.

²⁵ Observation—C adds: of others.

²⁶ To my thought—To my own impulses. (Then C adds): I behold what the artist does with reverence, but … .

²⁷ I like—C: I abandon myself to.

²⁸ I do … expressed—C: And if I must of necessity express my thoughts, I am never concerned to eliminate every trace of a refractory element in my materials and to produce something perfect, as the artist is.

²⁹ Learns—B adds: in quiet meditation.

³⁰ In order—Not only.

³¹ Ever determining—But also to determine.

³² If—C: as far as.

³³ I … otherwise—C: I no longer expect to ever get beyond it.

³⁴ Realize themselves—C adds: to absorb spiritually all that surrounds them.

³⁵ Next act—C: future acts.

³⁶ Highest—First. (C begins a new paragraph with this sentence.)

³⁷ Those—C: Those of my friends.

³⁸ Science—B and C add: except incidentally.

³⁹ The slavery … began—slavery to alien influences.

⁴⁰ But whatever … being—C: but less than other men will I have to retrace my steps, for whatever I do embrace will have become my own and will bear my impress. Whatever part of the world I am permitted to understand will by this course be reconstructed within me and taken up into my being.

⁴¹ Inner—C: acquired.

⁴² This outward … belongs—This outward side of him has little to do with my love for him, which does not feed upon this, nor is as much excited and rejoiced thereat as in the case of those who do not previously know the inner man. My expectancy is not so tense in regard to his acts as is theirs for whom everything depends upon successful results. All this … .

⁴³ Source—C adds: that they have never been aimed at merely pleasing, and still less motivated by stubborn partisanship.

⁴⁴ They are—C adds: never have I been so overwhelmed by congeniality in particular respects as to deceive myself about deeper inner differences.

⁴⁵ Opposites … each other—Those whose paths are far apart approach one another.

⁴⁶ A person … neighborhood.—The more his mind aspires to universality, the more a man engaged in self-culture feels attracted by various spheres, and people who are rooted in one or another of them are thus led to think he belongs with them. The more individualized I become, the more need a person will have for comprehensive appreciation and for an outgoing love toward character that is different from his own, if his understanding of me and his attachment is to be permanent.

THE WORLD

¹ Reason—C: understanding.

² From above—C: is it, one wonders, from above or from below?

³ His own service—For the service of his outward existence.

⁴ The strength of his spirit—The power of his mind over matter.

⁵ The consciousness … body—An unwonted sense of physical power.

⁶ The concept—C: the realm.

⁷ The work—C: the common work.

⁸ Perfection!—B and C add: To what purpose is an increased power over physical nature if it does not promote the life of one’s spirit? Why boast of your outward co-operation if it does not promote spiritual community? Health and strength are, to be sure, great goods, but do you not despise him who only wants to make an exhibition of them?

⁹ Companion—C: friend.

¹⁰ Elevating—B and C add: by the image of a love, to whom he could devote himself and in whom he could find full life.

¹¹ The order of sentences from here on through line … … on page … is radically altered in B and C, and there are considerable additions. The sequence is as follows: after mutual longing. B and C add: For man is still bound by his outward station, by the place which, in the meagre thing we call society, is assigned to him, but which he can not win for himself, and men cling to these restricting ties more tenaciously than a plant to mother earth. (Cf. p. 32.) Why so? Because it costs them little, they think, to cramp the higher spiritual life in order to be more certain of enjoying the lower. This is why they allow no free association to prosper, no open, spontaneous life; this is why they live so strangely, almost hermit-like, in close little cells, next to each other but not with each other; this is why they avoid union on a great scale, making but a miserable counterfeit of it in a federation of small states, and just as the fatherland is ridiculously divided, so is each of their little communities. [Cf. pp. 58-59, a propos the ideal of German unity.]

After this in B and C there follows the passage on page 54-55. Many a man has sufficient penetration … favorable atmosphere. But the last part of this passage is changed as shown in the notes on page 110 below.

After this there follows (p. 54): The piteous fate of the negro … barren to them (p. 54).

Then (p. 55): Again, many a man has a genuine … association with his fellow-beings; (p. 55). With changes as given in the notes on p. 110

Then (p. 54): The earth’s resources … is no one’s business (p. 54).

Finally (p. 55): And even to expect such aid … its immediate consequences (p. 56). Cf. Schiele, pp. 53-54.

¹² I—A fortunate man.

¹³ But no means … inner life. But few are able to find the spiritual companions who can cause their inner lives to prosper.

¹⁴ The distant—Their true.

¹⁵ And to find … them—Or to absorb the very nature of it and enter into its secrets with loving adaptation.

¹⁶ For the world … favorable atmosphere—His creative powers are spent in unhappy experiments; for no propitious winds waft him into a more favorable clime, he can reach no helpful friend, whose business it would be to supply him with the sustenance he needs, and to lead him to fruitful sources of knowledge.

¹⁷ In the pain … esthetic intent.—C: when they criticize what is alien to their spirits in his work, and he is obliged to experience that his own esthetic purposes are obstructed, because they demand something foreign to his genius.

¹⁸ Knowledge—experiences and insights.

¹⁹ The friendship—C: the false friendship.

²⁰ The beautiful—C: the most beautiful.

²¹ Are all—C: almost all become.

²² New existence—Higher existence. [The terms “new” and “old” were appropriate here in view of the rising national sentiment in Germany. Schleiermacher’s strong participation in this sentiment is evidenced not only by ensuing passages in the text, but also in his letters (see Letters, v. 2, pp. 57-58ff.) and by his public career. See Introduction, pp. lviff.]

²³ The state—C: society. [The change in wording here is indicative of Schleiermacher’s increasing political liberalism in face of the Metternich reaction. See Introduction, pp. lviff.]

²⁴ Light—C adds: an awful warning to the superstitious slaves of the present.

²⁵ All … are drawing, etc.—C: May all … draw, etc.

²⁶ Worldly motives—C: impure worldly motives.

²⁷ At its command … not—C: more at its command than we have.

²⁸ Concealed defects—C: the true shape and strength of limbs though concealed.

PROSPECT

¹ He must want … above all—He must strive to know, albeit in vain since the alternatives as he imagines them are inconceivable.

² The gods—B and C add: of mythology.

³ I surrendered … once taken—Contradict what I then did; but how could I wish to reverse that original decision by virtue of which I am what I am.

⁴ Its entirety—C adds: to the exclusion of all else.

⁵ The lifeless—C: those who even in their prime are lifeless.

⁶ Respect … bans—C: who often endure them as natural restrictions more than they respect them.

⁷ Do not—No longer.

⁸ Confirmations … to welcome—C adds: but am entitled to enjoy changeless peace. No I shall ever welcome.

⁹ As the fleeing … weapons—As the seaman in a raging storm casts overboard the cargo.

¹⁰ Can my will … fatherhood—Does not the incomprehensible often make sport of the dearest and truest love, and prevent a husband from also enjoying fatherhood?

¹¹ Has strayed—B and C add: from days of pristine virtue or.

¹² To—C adds: us and to.

¹³ Judges—C adds: confidently.

¹⁴ When judgment … contemplated—C: when the act imagined is a conscious outcome of such habitual reflection, then this act, … .

¹⁵ I have not got—C: is not at all as they imagine it.

¹⁶ To hate me—C: to turn from me.

¹⁷ More deeply—B and C add: and genuinely.

¹⁸ Could—Can.

¹⁹ Perfect—Inward.

²⁰ A premonition—Like a premonition.

YOUTH AND AGE

¹ Mad—C: Sad.

² Idleness—C: wisdom.

³ Emptiness of desire—C: peace of heart.

⁴ Efforts, C adds: But what they call the repose of wisdom is only idleness, and their peace of heart is an empty peace.

⁵ It is man’s—C: Let it be my … my goal … etc.

⁶ A situation—C: everything.

⁷ Fruit—C adds: that is ready to fall.

⁸ Mere foliage—C: the unsatisfying outgrowth of a turbulent disposition.

⁹ Inner energies—C: life’s richer possibilities.

¹⁰ Part of you—C: part of your life.

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