The Augustan Ages (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. THE DECAY OF LATIN: GERMANIA. THE PERSISTENCE OF LATIN--ITS DECADENCE--GALLICISM IN THE LITERATURES--GERMANY: THE ARREARS OF THOUGHT--THOUGHT: PUFENDORF AND THOMASIUS--THE VERDICT ON CLASSICISM--LEIBNIZ: CAREER--DRIFT OF HIS SYSTEM--THE MONADS: GENERAL SCOPE OF LEIBNIZ--THE ARREARS OF LITERATURE--ROMANCE--'SIMPLICISSIMUS '--WE1SE--RELIGION AND PIETISM--GERHARDT AND OTHERS--GALLICISM AND ANGLICISM: HALLER--THE 'SPECTATORS' AND CRITICISM--THE ONE SECULAR POET: GUNTHEli. THE FAR NORTH: ARREARS--FEDERAL LEARNING AND SCIENCE--THE NORTHERN PAST--THEOLOGY AND HYMNODY: PJETURSSON, KINGO, AND FRESE--SWEDEN: CHRISTINA AND STJERNHJELM--THE EPIGONI AND TRIEWALD--OLOF VON DALIN--DANSK-NORSK: VERSE--' JAMMERSMINDE '--HOLBERG: CAREER--' PEDER PAARS '--OTHER WORKS--COMEDIES. HOLLAND: ANTONIDES--FRENCH CLASSICISM STERILE--LUYKEN AND POOT--TWO COMEDIANS--VAN EFFEN, THE 'SPECTATOR, ' AND PROSE. Latin, the mediaeval mother-tongue of science and scholarship, of ritual and Scripture, and of philosophic The persistence thought, --long so nearly conterminous with ofLatm. theology, --had begun to lose its hold of these monopolies in the sixteenth century, and by the end of the seventeenth had receded far. But meanwhile many of the master-works had been written in Latin. By Calvin and Bodin, by Bacon and Grotius and Spinoza, it had been used as the sole or the worthier option: Descartes and Hobbes had kept it as a second weapon. The followers of Grotius in the field of natural jurisprudence, Cumberland, Pufendorf, and Thomasius, found in it the fittest and most universal language for their subject, although the last of the three was the great champion, together with Leibniz, of the native German. Leibniz himself, a trilingual writer, shows that though Latin was giving gr...