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Excerpt from Essays and Tales, Moral, Literary, and Philosophical
The literature of the Germans is hitherto but imperfectly known to an y countrymen. Its halcyon times are past, its meridian Splendours eclipsed, and it is far gone in its Aphelion. In Germany, metaphysicians, like the so phists of ancient Greece, have usurped the rank of fine writers, and have cor rupted the genius of the rising genera ftion.
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