WorkFriedrich Schiller

“Die Worte des Glaubens" or similar poem”

"Die Worte des Glaubens" or similar poem (1797) Inferred

InferredGerman verse 'Vordem Sklaven, wenn er die Kette bricht, / Vordem freien Menschen erzitret nicht' — identified as likely from Schiller's 'Die Worte des Glaubens' (1797) or related poem.

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Documented 1845

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Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

undatedDie Worte des Glaubens (Words of Faith)Demonstrated
“Im Munde der Guten und Besten Schallen vergeblich; ihr Klang ist leer... Das Rechte, das Gute findet ewig Streit, Nie wird der Fiend ihm entiezen.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
Multi-line German verse (two couplets) copied verbatim into her notebook, a substantial excerpt.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“Vordem Sklaven, wenn er die Kette bricht, / Vordera freien Menschen erziitert nicht." / Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred German verse 'Vordem Sklaven, wenn er die Kette bricht, / Vordem freien Menschen erzitret nicht' — identified as likely from Schiller's 'Die Worte des Glaubens' (1797) or related poem.