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THE GODLIKE

THE GODLIKE ("Das Göttliche" [The Godlike / The Divine], poem composed 1783; first published without authorization in F. H. Jacobi's Über die Lehre des Spinoza, 1785; first authorized publication in Goethe's Schriften, 1789)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) · "Das Göttliche" [The Godlike / The Divine], poem composed 1783; first published without authorization in F. H. Jacobi's Über die Lehre des Spinoza, 1785; first authorized publication in Goethe's Schriften, 1789

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Documented 1841

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undatedThe Godlike (Das Göttliche)Demonstrated
“Hail to the Unknown, the Higher Being Felt within us!”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
Engagement_type is Translated, which automatically qualifies for the Demonstrated tier.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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The Dial

“Menzel's View of Goethe” · Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1841

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“And this is part of his hymn for man made in the divine image, 'THE GODLIKE.' / 'Hail to the Unknown, the / Higher Being / Felt within us!”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p18-20

The phrase "without haste, without rest" attributed to Goethe (line 775: "that ceaseless but graceful motion, 'without haste, without rest,'") is a common maxim or motto of Goethe's ("Ohne Hast, ohne Rast"), though it does not appear in "Das Göttliche." Here, it is treated as part of Fuller's engagement with Goethe's written wisdom.