Excerpt from The Disciples at Sais, and Other Fragments The town of Jena is not many miles from Weimar, and at this time Goethe and Schiller were fast friends, and their opinion of the Romantics is to be seen in the letters they exchanged. Goethe laughs at them half scornfully and straightforward Schiller is vexed at their posturing. The former was so greatly admired by the inner ring that the latter was in danger of being undervalued. Goethe occasionally came to Jena to visit Schiller, but generally when the Romantics wished to see the Object of their devotion they pilgrimaged along the avenue Of plum trees that led to Weimar and there offered him the incense of their adulation. Frederick the divine, writes Dorothea Veit Of F. 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.