Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Works of Heinrich Heine, Vol. 2
Whether Heine's genius and in?uence has been invariably and immediately exerted for good or for evil is, and ever should be, for the impartial student of literature and of history, a matter of supreme indifference The greatest and most important developments are those whose real aims and value are first appreciated by posterity. If progress be the peculiar law of humanity, it is not less certain that agitation is the mainspring of progress, and that as a general rule all agi tations, however disagreeable they may have appeared to contemporaries, have advanced the world. Such goods as happiness and improved social culture can only be bought by blood and suffering.
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