Excerpt from Goethes Faust, Vol. 1: Edited With Introduction and Commentary The present edition of the First Part of Goethe's Faust aims to be a modest contribution on the part of American scholarship to the commemoration of the approaching centenary of the first publication of the drama, one of'the most important events in the history of human civilization. Even before the ap pearence of the completed poem, Schelling, one of the foremost thinkers of the time, had with prophetic vision called it a fountain of youth from which the rejuvenation of life and science was destined to flow. Recognizing the deep philosophical meaning of this characteristic German production, Schelling's re marks ushered in at the same time the so-called phil osophical interpretation of the drama which pre vailed during the subsequent long period of the domination of Hegel's Aest/zetz'cs. 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.