Excerpt from Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. 4 of 5 Another remark, on a lower scale, not unworthy of notice, is by Jean Paul: that as in art, so in conduct, or what we call morals, before there can be an Aristotle with his critical canons, there must be 9. Homer, many Homers with their heroic performances. In plainer words, the original man is the true creator (or call him revealer) of Morals too: it is from his example that precepts enough are derived, and written down in books and systems: he properly is the thiazg; all that follows after is but talk about the thing, better or worse interpretation of it, more or less wearisome and ineffectual discourse of logic on it. A remark this Of Jean Paul's which, ' well meditated, may seem one of the most pregnant late written on these matters. If any man had the ambition of building a new system of morals (not a promising enterprise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.