Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1911 — Germany and Heine. [ARTICLE]

Germany and Heine.

Lord Haldane In his recent university address, “Great Britain and Germany: A Study in Ethnology/’ had words of reproach for Germany; concerning her treatment of Heine. He pointed out that Germanyt-in the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century had her Elizabethan age, so far as literature and philosophy were concerned: How much poorer would the whole world be but for this period of German life. In which she for the time outstripped every other country! Yet even then she indulged in tendencies which needed correction, and if she had listened to Heinrich Heine they might have been corrected And the outlook enlarged. And now the revanche was in progress, much as Heine predicted, and. looking at the German railway bookstalls he could see that the spirit of Party vf&s advancing on Berlin. It need not have been so, and it should not have been so. and Heine told of a better way. Had bis counsel been listened to there would have been no Nietzsche period —so at least it seemed to a foreigner.