Schiller: a letter on aesthetic education to a later age. (Symposium: arts education from past to present).(Friedrich von Schiller)

If I should not care to be living in another century, or to have labored for another, I am nonetheless confident that the ideas predominant in my Letters, stripped of their technicalities and philosophical variances, will emerge as the consensus of mankind in regard to matters of education and the refinement of sensibility.

The sorry skeleton of my words discloses but a fleeting appearance of the living Truth bequeathed by that moral instinct by which Nature guides Man to maturity. It is perhaps admissible, then, that I should in this last letter address a later age, some two ...

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