This study is based on the author's doctoral thesis at Trinity College Dublin and offers close

readings of some of Novalis's best-known texts, including Heinrich von Ofterdingen, as well
as of letters and selections from philosophical works such as the Fichte-Studien. The
readings are organized under the general theme of Novalis's understanding and portrayal
of women and of the feminine. Hodkinson begins with introductory chapters on
"Romanticism, Gender, and the Case of Novalis" and "Writing About Women, 17951799,"
and follows these with a chapter on letters and letter-writing. The study then opens up into
very interesting and often little-considered territory, with chapters focusing on music and
polyphony and the relation of these to Novalis's specific views of femininity.

Hodkinson subscribes on the whole to an approach to Novalis studies popular with

poststructuralists, but he does not subsume the author under the theory. He does stress
that Novalis's writing about gender and women is a product of an overall theory of writing,
one in which "women" and "the feminine" often blur together. Hodkinson does not fully
explore the implications of the notion that a particularly Romantic, self-conscious, ironic
writing intended to be very precise may actually help produce a sort of conceptual collapse;
his focus is more on close readings than on developing a new theory of a Romantic theory
of writing. But he does explain what (at least one sort of) "Romantic" writing actually is,
and how Novalis's philosophy and poesy fit into that context. In so doing, Hodkinson
identifies and begins to explore a promising direction for Novalis (and Early Romantic)
scholarship: when he indicates that the same Romantic semiotics that turns women into
words and reality into illusion also enables the (in this case) male author to redefine and in
effect to recreate women, and himself, Hodkinson encourages us to think of semiotics as a
realm that cannot completely shut out the subject. Hodkinson also implicitly asks us to
reconsider the Romantic development of the aesthetic into an essentially separate sphere of
existence, and instead to re-read Novalis as deeply engaged with reality rather than
attempting to flee it. He leaves us wondering, yet again, where Novalis might have taken
Romanticism had he lived longer.

A reading of the Hemsterhuis-Studien in particular encourages us to return to Novalis, as

Hodkinson shows that Novalis tries to transform love into an organizing principle not only
in philosophy, but in biology as well (100101). This recalls Friedrich Schlegel's argument,
in his writings on psychology, that love, not language, is the basis of understanding. In the
same passage (in Volume 12 of the Kritische Friedrich-Schlegel-Ausgabe, 350351),
Schlegel refers to a concept of alterity that Hodkinson finds in Novalis as well: love prompts
and permits the self to conceive of an 'other' in the first place. The representation of the
other, the "Du," is of course [End Page 115] internally generated, and transformed
through speech and writing, but that does not mean that real others do not exist. Poetic
language does not obscure our path to relationships with real othersit enables those
relationships, and enables our constant redefining of ourselves as compared with those
others.

On the matter of the significance of Novalis's very young fiance Sophie von Khn,
Hodkinson uses existing scholarship as well as Novalis's own writing judiciously and
persuasively. He essentially rephrases the now-standard thinking on Sophie in the early
chapter on Romanticism and gender, but the importance of Novalis's construction of Sophie
for his later fictionalizations of "woman" must be addressed. Hodkinson is almost certainly
right to assert that the creation of a "consciously artificial" image of Sophie was far more
important to Novalis's later work than any prolonged mourning for the real girl. The
conviction that Sophie was generally of more use to Novalis as a reconstructed image is
also consistent with the emphasis in the Fichte-Studien on the view that knowledge...
NOVALIS FRAGMENTS

Applied love for Julien.

By believing that sons may be around me, and to act according to this faith, she is also
about me, and finally appears to me-precisely where I do not suppose. In me, as my
soul perhaps, and precisely thereby truly beyond me; For the true outward can only
affect me through myself, in me, and in delightful circumstances. (On the illusion of
the senses.)

Marriage, which is also closed for death, is a wedding that gives us a comrade for the
night. In love love is sweetest; For the loved one, death is a bridal night, a mystery of
sweet mysteries.

The more immeasurably and manifold the horizon (the sphere) of consciousness
becomes, the more individual size disappears, and the more noticeable the human
reason becomes. The greater and greater the whole, the more remarkable the
individual. Restrictive capacity grows with the absence of boundaries. The Goethe
philosopher or thinker. With the education and skill of the thinker, freedom grows.
(Freedom and love are one.) The multiplicity of methods increases - in the end, the
thinker knows how to make everything from everyone. The philosopher becomes a
poet. Poets are only the highest degree of the thinker or receiver, etc. (degrees of the
poet.)

The more the object, the greater the love for it - absolute love meets an absolute
object. I return to you, noble Kepler, whose high sense a spiritual, spiritual universe
has created, rather than that in our time it is thought to be wisdom - to kill all things,
to humble the high, rather than elevate the humble, To bend people under the laws of
the mechanism.

To build worlds does not suffice the deeply urgent sense:

But a loving heart saturates the aspiring mind.

When one begins to think about philosophy, philosophy, like God and love, seems to us
to be everything. It is a mystical, highly effective, penetrating idea that drives us
inexorably in all directions. The decision to philosophize, to seek philosophy is the act
of manumission, the impulse to ourselves.

To all the faculties and powers of the mind there must be something opposite? What's
this? (In which sphere is all the whole part, and in which all the whole?) There are
only two elements, and one sphere of the phenomenon for the same. (Love as a
synthetic force.) It is only a matter of whether we take something into the inner
sphere of our free activity, which it hinders, so we also suffer and are dependent on it.
Even the greatest misfortune must be absorbed in this sphere, if it is to affect us,
otherwise it will be alien to us and outside us.

The whole representation rests on a present -ment of the non-present, and so on.
(Miraculous fiction.) My faith and love is based on representative faith. Thus the
assumption that eternal peace is already there; God is among us; Here is America or
nowhere; The golden age is here; We are wizards; We are moral and so on.

Mathematics refers only to law, to legal nature and art, to non-magical nature and art.
Magically, both are only through moralization. Love is the reason of the possibility of
magic. Love is magical.

All mental touch is like touching a wand. Everything can become a magic tool. But to
whom the effects of such touch are so marvelous, to whom the effects of a spell are so
marvelous, remember only the first touch of the hand of his beloved, to his first,
important glance, where the wand is the aborted beam of light First kiss, to the first
word of love, and wonders whether the spell and charm of these moments is not also
fabulous and miraculous, indissoluble, and eternal?

If all the shooting, the consolidation, and the condensation are connected with
warmth, and every volatilization, disintegration, and dilution of cold is accompanied,
learning and loving in the proper sense make warm and the idleness and secretion
cold, and at the same time some phenomena of the soul To explain.

The mind at all eats, digests, secrets or fertilizes, receives, is fertilized and infused.
True love is not a single flower, but a vegetable plant. Tendencies are the analogy of
the muscles. Sleeping is the digestion of sensory impressions. Dreams are excrements;
They are caused by the peristaltic movement of the brain. Nature is at the same time
an infinite animal, an infinite plant and an infinite stone. Their functions in this
threefold form. Through their food, which is threefold, arise the natural regions. They
are their dreamers.

Love theory

Love Philosophy

Love is a product of the interaction of two individuals - hence mystical and universal
and infinitely fashionable as the individual principle itself.

If there was not an absolute need, the straight exclusion of the others made possible:
love, whole life with loved ones?

Plato makes love already the child of want, need, and abundance.

Love is like philosophy. It is and shall be to everyone and everything. Love is therefore
the ego, the ideal of every effort.

It goes with love like conviction. How many believe to be convinced and are not. Only
from truth can one truly be convinced-only love can be truly loved.

You are alone with everything you love.

All the likes

All things worth loving are one thing (one thing). The infinite lovable is an infinite
thing, something which can only be done through ceaseless, infinite activity. Only one
thing you can own.

Need for love

Need for love already betrays an existing disunity in us. Need always betrays
weakness.

Love parade

Every beloved object is the center of a paradise.

Love the art

Love has always played novels or love art has always been romantic.

interest

Interest is participation in the suffering and activity of a being. I am interested in

something when I am aroused to participate. No interest is more interesting than what
one takes in oneself; Just as the reason for a strange friendship and love is the
attendance to which a man irritates me, who is occupied with himself, who, by his
communication, as it were, invites me to take part in his business.

Lovable items

Of a lovable object we can not hear enough, do not speak enough. We are glad about
every new, apt, glorious word. It is not up to us that it does not become an object of all
objects.

We hold a lifeless substance because of its relationships, its forms. We love the
substance, inasmuch as it belongs to a beloved being, bears its trace, or bears a
resemblance to it.

Community shipwreck

A common shipwreck, etc., is a marriage of friendship or love.

Love without jealousy

Love without jealousy is not personal love but indirect love - one can say love of
reason; Because one does not love here as a person but as a member of mankind. One
loves the rival more like the object.

The sound of the senses is to love, what is sleep to life.

"Friendship, love, and piety should be treated mysteriously"

Shame is probably a feeling of profanation. Friendship, love, and piety should be

treated mysteriously. One should speak of it only in rare and familiar moments, to
understand it quietly. Much is too delicate to be thought, even more, to be discussed.
One must never confess that one loves oneself. The secret of this confession is the life
principle of the only true and eternal love. The first kiss in this understanding is the
principle of philosophy, the origin of a new world, the beginning of the absolute
calculation of time, the accomplishment of an infinitely growing self-bond.

To whom is not a philosophy whose germ is a first kiss?

Love is popularizing the personalities, it makes individualities communicable and

understandable. (Love comprehension.)

Magical love doctrine

World of love

If one loves oneself, a real, visible world unfolds within us according to the words.

Awakening of a strange consciousness

The awakening of a strange consciousness, the revival of a strange personality in the

inner mind-for the purpose of marriage.

The seed

The seed is a food and irritant of the woman to replace the menstrua. In the most real
sense, therefore, the man lives with the woman. - Should the woman be more
sensitive, the man more irritable?

Marriage denotes a new, higher epoch of love: the sociable, the compulsive love, the
living love. Philosophy is born with marriage.

"Sophie, or the women"

Sophie or the women.

Women are worldviews and sapphires

The charcoal and the diamond are a fabric and yet how different! Should not it be the
same with man and woman? We are clays, and the women are succumbents and
sapphires, also of clay.

Superiority of women

The postulate of female mysticism is commonplace. All women demand unconditional

love for the first, best objects. What a high opinion of the free force and self-creating
power of their mind does not presuppose this!

Should not the superiority of women speak of the fact that the extremes of their
formation are much more striking than ours? The most reprobate fellow is not so
different from the most splendid man as the wretched woman from a noble woman. Is
not that also much good is said of the men, but nothing good is said about the women?
Have they not the resemblance to the infinite that they can not squat, but can only be
found by approach? And with the utmost, that they are absolutely close to us, and yet
always sought, that they are absolutely intelligible, and yet do not understand that
they are absolutely indispensable, and yet most often are deprived. And with higher
beings, that they appear so childlike, so common, so idle and so playful? -

Their greater helplessness also raises them above us, as well as their greater self-
sufficiency, their greater slavery and their greater despotent; And so they are
absolutely above us and among us, and yet more connected and indivisible than us.

Would we love her too, if this were not the case? Women are the result of love and
love, and therefore no one understands the other. Whoever wants to find women
without love and love without women is like the philosopher who saw the instinct
without the object and the object without the impulse and did not see both in the
concept of action at the same time.

(Materials.) What is not yet leur porte is not yet ripe. Your occupations. What they
are of any age. Your education. Your circle. They are like the distinguished Romans,
not for making, but for the enjoyment of the results-for exertion, not for trial.

Chevalerie. Their building - their beauty.

They are a lovely mystery - only cloaked, not closed. The philosophical mysteries
arouse a similar reaction. Hetriet. Your soul powers. Look at the future. The act of
embrace - the Greek goddesses. Madonna. Every nation, every time, has its own
favorite character. The women in poetry. To be loved is essential to them. About the
female seasons. Women and love separate only the mind.

"Plant similarity of the women"

Vegetation similar to the women. Seals on this idea. (Flowers are vessels.)

Chemical, organic and physiological nature of the beauty of a body.

Oryctognost

(Human doctrine.) The women really have a decided sense for the outer: they are
native oryctognosts.

About the sphere of women

About the sphere of women: the nursery - the kitchen - the garden - the cellar - the
vault - the bedroom - the living room - the guest room - the floor or the rumpel
chamber.

Les femmes

Les femmes are for this reason the pole around which the existence and philosophy of
the nobility clever revolves, because at the same time they affect both body and soul.
They, too, love the indivisibility and place an unrestricted value on this mixed
enjoyment; This taste is all about: the bed should be soft and the shape and
embroidery pretty, the food delicate, but also animating and so quite.

Femmes is also fond of her writing mind, so they have written so much about it.
Everyone sees his image everywhere; Therefore vanity finds vanity.

Nothing is more consoling than the image of the state to which La philosophie du
monde leads, which unintentionally and truly naively portray the concepted and
consumed world-men of themselves and their way of thinking in their writings and
speeches. Consoling and attracting truly not; A threefold old age, as opposed to the
inconvenience, just as the youths were thrice thrust. La vraie philosophy belongs to
the passive science of life. It is a natural, antithetical effect of this life, but not a free
product of our magical power of invention.

There is also a progression in bad habits. If one lets oneself go, there is gradually a
monster in its kind. Thus, in brutality, in cruelty, piety, etc.

Les femmes have not complained about injustice. What a pity if a woman was there!
The beaux esprits are quite right in the respect of the femmes. But who will confuse
Les femmes with the women?

Les femmes are patterns of the most affectionate, feminine constitution, highest
asthenia, with a minimum of reason. So they become very comprehensible.
Annihilantes of Reason.

About fashion. Should the highest stimulus for an asthenician be an asthenic? and vice
versa.

This would be the dearest to them, who would be the most brilliant virtue against the
others, and the loveliest lust for them-the tyrant against all who were worshiped
everywhere, and the worshiping slaves alone.

Real love for plaster

Could there possibly be a lady who, from genuine love for the plaster, well-suited for
unselfish taste?

Esprit of the Bagatelles

Women - Children - Esprit des Bagatelles. Type of conversation with them. The
patterns of ordinary femininity feel the limits of every existence very precisely, and
take care not to cross the same; Hence their celebrated habit, practical worldmen.
They themselves may not suffer exaggerated subtleties, delicacies, truths, virtues,
inclinations. They love variety of the common, novelty of the ordinary; No new ideas,
but new clothes, uniformity as a whole, superficial stimuli. They love the dance,
especially because of its lightness, vanity and sensuality. Too good wit is fatal to them -
just like everything beautiful, grand and noble. Mediocre and even bad reading,
actors, plays, etc., is their cause.

Duties to the people: Attention, love, compliance. What they are talking about does not
concern you
The smaller and slower you start, the more perfect. The more you can do with a little,
the more you can do with a lot. If one understands one's love, then one also
understands everything to love best.

Ordinary life is a priesthood, almost like the Vestal. We are concerned with nothing
but the preservation of a holy and mysterious flame - a double, as it seems. It depends
on how we care for them and wait. Should the manner of their care be perhaps the
measure of our fidelity, love, and care for the highest, the character of our being?
Professionalism - symbolic sign of our religiosity, d.i. Our nature? (Fire worshiper.)

The heart is the key of the world and of life. One lives in this helpless condition in
order to love and be obliged to others. By imperfection one becomes capable of the
action of others, and this foreign influence is the purpose. In illnesses, and only others
can help us. Thus, from this point of view, Christ is the key of the world.

The demand to accept the present world for the best and the absolute of mine is quite
the same, to keep my dared woman for the best and the only one, and to live entirely
for her and in her. There are many similar demands and claims, whose recognition
makes the duty of having an everlasting respect for everything that has happened,
which is historically religious, the absolute believer and mystic of history at all, the
real lover of destiny . The fate is the mystified history. Any arbitrary love, in the well-
known meaning, is a religion that has and can have but has only one apostle,
evangelist and follower, and can be a cross-religion - but need not be.

God is love. Love is the highest real - the foundation.

The theory of love is the highest science, natural science, or science.

Religion can not be proclaimed otherwise than love and patriotism. If you wanted to
make someone in love, how do you think about it?

What is mysticism? What must be treated mysteriously? Religion, love, nature, state. -
All Chosen refers to Mysticism. If all men were a few lovers, the difference between
mysticism and non-mysticism would fall away.

Religion and love

There are some flowers in this world, which are of a supernatural origin, which do not
thrive in this climate, and are actual heralds, calling messengers of a better existence.
Among these messengers belong above all religion and love. The greatest happiness is
to know his beloved well and virtuous, the greatest concern is the care of her nobility.
Attention to God and mindfulness to those moments when the ray of heavenly
conviction and reassurance breaks into our souls is the most beneficial thing one can
have for himself and his loved ones.

Love is the ultimate purpose of world history, the Amen of the universe.

Love can enter into religion through absolute will. The Supreme Being is worth only
by death. (Reconciliation Death)
Why can not there be virtuosity in religion? Because it is based on love.
Schleiermacher has a kind of love, proclaimed by religion, a religion of art, almost a
religion like that of the artist who reveres beauty and the ideal. Love is free - it
chooses most of all the poorest and most needy.

God therefore bestoweth upon the poor and the sinner. If there are loveless natures,
there are also irreligious ones.

Religious task: to have compassion with God.

Infinite wistfulness of religion. If we are to love God, he must be in need of help. To

what extent is this task solved in Christianism?

Love for lifeless objects. Incarnation of man. Christ's predilection for morality.

Remarks on what the old sympathy called?

Funny handling in love.

(Active love - coming in and falling in.

Direct Sthenic - Asthenic love. Perfect Love.)

Observations of voluptuousness in the whole of nature. (Charm is quite analogous to

the concept of mystery, the mystery is to be concealed, the stimulus must be
entrapped) (feeling of the welts, etc. in lust), feeling of genius in patriotism, religion,
love.

(Universal notion of Christianity.) Love is quite a disease: hence the wonderful

significance of Christianity.

23. Shame is probably a feeling of profanation. Friendship, love, and piety should be
treated mysteriously. One should speak of it only in rare and familiar moments, to
understand it quietly. Much is too deliberately thought about, still more to be
discussed.

Of a lovable object we can not hear enough, do not speak enough. We are glad about
every new, apt, glorious word. It is not for us that he does not become an object of all
objects.

42. We maintain a lifeless substance because of its relationships, its forms. We love the
material, inasmuch as it belongs to a beloved being, bears its trace, or resembles it.

73. The more our senses refine, the more capable they are to distinguish the
individuals. The highest sense would be the highest susceptibility to peculiar nature.
According to him, the talent of the fixation of the individual, whose skill and energy is
relative. When the will expresses itself in relation to this sense, the passions for or
against individualities arise, love and hatred. Mastery in the play of its own role is due
to the direction of this sense to itself in the case of prevailing reason.
43. Les femmes are for this reason the pole around which the existence and the
philosophy of the nobility clever revolves, because at the same time they affect the
body and the soul. You also love the indivisibility and place an unlimited value on this
mixed enjoyment; This taste is all about: the bed should be soft and the shape and
embroidery pretty, the food delicate, but also animating and so quite.

54. Could there possibly be a lady, who, from genuine love for the plaster, well-suited
for unselfish taste?

67. A communal shipwreck, etc., is a marriage of friendship or love.

85. The postulate of female mysticism is commonplace. All women demand

unconditional love for the first, best objects. What a high opinion of the free force and
self-creating power of their mind does not presuppose this.

105. Love without jealousy is not personal love but indirect love - one can say love of
reason; Because one does not love here as a person but as a member of mankind. One
loves the rival more like the object.

Would we love her too, if this were not the case? Love is the love of women, and
women are born with love, and therefore one can understand no one else. Anyone who
wants to find women without love and love without women is like the philosopher who
saw the instinct without the object and the object without the impulse and did not see
both in the concept of action at the same time.

They are a lovely mystery - only cloaked, not closed. The philosophical mysteries
arouse a similar reaction. Hetaiah. Your soul powers. Look at the future. The act of
embrace - the Greek goddesses. Madonna. Every nation, every time, has its own
favorite character. The women in poetry. To be loved is essential to them. About the
female seasons. Women and love separate only the mind.

The more the object, the greater the love for it, -to an absolute object comes absolute
love. I return to you, noble Keppler, whose high sense a spiritual, spiritual universe
has created, rather than that in our times it is thought to be wisdom - to kill
everything, to humiliate the High, instead of elevating the little; To bend people under
the laws of the mechanism.

All mental touch is like touching a wand. Everything can become a magic tool. But to
whom the effects of such touch are so marvelous, to whom the effects of a spell are so
marvelous, remember only the first touch of the hand of his beloved, to his first,
important glance, where the wand is the aborted beam of light The first kiss, the first
word of love, and wonders whether the spell and magic of these moments is not also
fabulous and miraculous, indissoluble, and eternal? [29]

There are some flowers in this world that are of supernatural origin, which do not
flourish in this climate, and are true heralds, calling messengers of a better existence.
Among these messengers belong above all religion and love. The greatest happiness is
to know his beloved well and virtuous, the greatest concern is the care of her nobility.
Attention to God, and mindfulness to those moments when the ray of heavenly
conviction and reassurance breaks into our souls is the most beneficial thing one can
have for himself and his loved ones. [53]

One must never confess that one loves oneself. The secret of this confession is the life
principle of the only true and eternal love. The first kiss in this understanding is the
principle of philosophy, the origin of a new world, the beginning of the absolute
calculation, the accomplishment of an infinitely growing self-bond.

To whom is not a philosophy whose germ is a first kiss? Love is popularizing the
personalities, it makes individualities communicable and understandable. (Love
understanding.) [55]

Only the incomplete can be understood, can lead us further. The full is only enjoyed. If
we want to comprehend nature, we must put it as incomplete, in order to arrive at an
unknown interchange. All provision is relative. [56]

Wolkenspiel - Naturspiel (is) extremely poetic. Nature is an Aeolian harp, it is a

musical instrument, the sounds of which are again strings of higher strings. (Idea
association). [57]

A true love of a lifeless thing is well conceived, even to plants, animals, to nature-
indeed, to itself. When man first has a truly inner self, a highly spiritual and sensual
intercourse develops, and the most violent passion is possible. Genius is perhaps
nothing but the result of such an inner plural. The secrets of this intercourse are still
very unlit. [58]

Sweet melancholy is the real character of a genuine love - the element of longing and
unification.

There are so many flowers in this world that are of a supernatural origin, which do not
flourish in this climate and are actually heralds, calling messengers of a better
existence. Among these flowers belongs, above all, religion and love.

The highest happiness is to know his beloved well and virtuous. The greatest concern
is the concern for their nobility.

Attention to God and mindfulness to those moments when the ray of heavenly
conviction and reassurance breaks into our souls is the most beneficial thing one can
have for himself and his loved ones.

Today I had an extremely blessed day. Only early a few slight changes of anxiety. After
all day unspeakably calm, strong, courageous, free and serene. I thanked God very
much. Oh! For my good Julie's sake; Also because of my other loves. I can already see
a thousand fruits of these murky hours. The love of my fellow and other good men, the
duties of the sick and the needy, the great happiness of the inner health and
tranquility, the more intimate attachment to God and Jesus, the comfort of an
unscrupulous lifestyle, and a gentle, good-natureing testimony to other people Become
clearer, clearer and stronger. I have also had some beneficial experiences about the
nature of anxiety and the means of moderating them at least. Once a certain sensation
comes, the fear is gone. The fear is a sway, an uncertainty, mostly physical. The
healthy is always calm, even under the worst circumstances.

Why is the male in the animal must be a fair amount (relative beauty) than the female?
(The animal beauty, the charm is strength, energy.) (The man is more directly more
charming, the woman is indirectly more charming.)

The man is more mineral, the woman more vegetal.

Children and young women

Eternal virgins - born women.

(Eternal doctrine of man.) Virgo is an eternal, feminine child. What does the Virgin
have for us men? A girl who is no longer a true child is no longer a virgin. (Not all
children are children.)

The beautiful mystery of the Virgin

The beautiful mystery of the Virgin, which makes her just as inexpressibly appealing,
is the premonition of motherhood, the imposition of a future world, which is to sleep
within her and develop from her. It is the most striking image of the future.

"The man's being is the chief object of the woman"

The man must subdue his nature and procure in himself the right and rule of the
individual; It is the domination of the will and the subjection of the feeling.

The women know nothing of the relations of the community - only by their husband
they are connected with the state, the church, the public, etc. They live in the natural
state.

On the various kinds of entertainment of both sexes.

(The man may desire the sensuous in a rational form, the woman desire the rational in
sensuous form.)

Men can wives, women can entertain men most naturally.

The man's being is the chief object of the woman.

Woman is the symbol of goodness and beauty; The man the symbol of truth and right.

In man is reason, in woman's feeling (both positive) the tone. The morality of woman is
founded in feeling-like that of man in reason.

The man is phlogistic - a predominant constriction - the woman dephlogistic, a

predominant dilution process.

Marriage is the supreme secret. Marriage is a popular secret with us. It is a bad thing
that we have only the choice between marriage and loneliness. The extremes are - but
how few people are capable of a true marriage - how little can loneliness endure. -
There are connections of all kinds. An infinite connection is the marriage. - Is the
woman the purpose of the man, and is the woman without purpose?

Men, too, can be absolutely attached, as well as women. Sincere, noble character -
visible everywhere.

Marriage is for politics, which is the lever for the machine gauges. The state does not
consist of individual people, but of couples and societies. The estates of marriage are
the estates of the state: woman and man. The woman is the so-called uneducated part.

There is an ideal of this state; Rousseau saw it exclusively in his apology of nature.
Rousseau 's philosophical philosophies are, at all events, feminine philosophy or
theory of femininity - views from the feminine point of view. Now the woman has
become slave.

The farm is actually the great pattern of a household. According to him, the large
budgets of the state are formed, according to these the smaller ones, and so down.
How might the court reform work! The king should not be frugal like a countryman or
a wealthy private man; But there is also a royal frugality, and this seems to know the
king. The farm is supposed to be the classic private life in large. The housewife is the
feather of the house. So the queen the feather of the court. The man veneered, the
woman arranges and straightens. A frivolous household is largely the fault of the
woman. The fact that the queen is absolutely antifrivolous is known to everyone.
Therefore, I do not understand how she can endure court life as it is. To her taste, too,
which is so intimate with her heart, the bland monotony must be unbearable.

Every educated woman and every careful mother should have the image of the queen
in her daughters' living room. What a beautiful, vigorous memory of the archetype
that any one could have achieved. Similarity with the queen would be the
characteristic feature of the New-Prussian women, their national train. An amiable
creature under a thousand folds. It would be easy to introduce a significant ceremony
of homage to the Queen with every marriage; And so the king and the queen should
improve the ordinary life, as the ancients did with their gods. There, genuine
religiosity arose through this incessant mixture of the gods' world into life. Thus, by
this constant interweaving of the royal couple into the domestic and public life of true
patriotism, we might be born.

Otherwise they would have to flee with their husbands, as they were before a
contagious place. A court will now be able to retreat from the general misconduct, like
a happy island. In order to find an excellent wife, a cautious young man would have to
go to the remote provinces, at least to the families wholly removed from town and
court; In the future, as the original concept was supposed to be, they should go to
Court, as the gathering-place of the best and most beautiful, and be able to praise a
woman from the hand of the Queen.

The demand to accept the present world for the best and the absolute of mine is quite
the same, to keep my dared woman for the best and the only one, and to live entirely
for her and in her. There are many similar demands and claims, whose recognition
makes the duty of having an everlasting respect for everything that has happened,
which is historically religious, the absolute believer and mystic of history at all, the
real lover of destiny . The fate is the mystified history. Any arbitrary love, in the well-
known meaning, is a religion that has and can have but has only one apostle,
evangelist and follower, and can be a cross-religion - but need not be.

The play of the eyes allows for an extremely varied expression. The other facial
gestures or mines are only the consonants to the ventricles of the eye. Physiognomy is
thus the sign language of the face. He has a lot of physiognomy, his face is a finished,
striking and idealizing linguistic organ. The women have an idealizing physiognomy.
They can not only perceive sensations, but also charming and beautiful, ideal. Long
learning teaches one to understand the face language. The most perfect physiognomy
must be universal and absolutely intelligible. One could call the eyes a light piano. The
eye expresses itself in a similar way as the throat, through higher and deeper tones
(the vowels), by weaker and stronger luminations. Should the colors not be the light
consonants?

Everything perfected does not speak alone, there is a whole connected world. Hence,
the perfected of every kind of veil of the eternal virgin hovers; Which dissolves the
slightest touch in magical vapor, which becomes the cloud car of the seer. It is not the
antique alone that we see. It is the sky, the telescope, and the fixed star, and thus a
genuine revelation of a higher world.

Should not an inspiration in a woman be able to express herself through pregnancy?

Could a Roman soldier be the father of Jesus? About the sacred history at all, her
poetry, her innermost evidence.

51. Les femmes have not complained about injustice. What a pity if a woman was
there! The Beauxesprits are quite right in the respect of the femmes. But who will
confuse Les femmes with the women?

61. Men, too, can be absolutely attached, as well as women. (An open, noble character
- visible everywhere.)

85. The postulate of female mysticism is commonplace. All women demand

unconditional love for the first, best objects. What a high opinion of the free force and
self-creating power of their mind does not presuppose this.

86. The play of the eye permits an extremely varied expression. The other facial
gestures, or mines, are only the consonants to the ventricles of the eye. Physiognomy
is thus the sign language of the face. He has a lot of physiognomy, his face is a
finished, striking and idealizing linguistic organ. The women have an idealizing
physiognomy. They can not only perceive sensations, but also charming and beautiful,
ideal. Long learning teaches one to understand the face language. The most perfect
physiognomy must be universal and absolutely intelligible. One could call the eyes a
light piano. The eye expresses itself in a similar way as the throat, through higher and
deeper tones (the vowels), by weaker and stronger luminations. Should the colors not
be the light consonants?
97. Women - Children - Esprit des Bagatelles. Type of conversation with them. The
patterns of ordinary femininity feel the limits of every existence very closely, and are
careful not to exceed them; Hence their celebrated habit, practical worldmen.

Should not the superiority of women speak of the fact that the extremes of their
formation are much more striking than ours? The most reprobate fellow is not so
different from the most excellent man as the wretched woman from a noble woman. Is
not that also much good is said of the men, but nothing good is said about the women?
Have they not the resemblance to the infinite that they can not squat, but can only be
found by approach? And with the Supreme Being, that they are absolutely close to us,
and yet always sought, that they are absolutely intelligible, yet yet they do not
understand that they are absolutely indispensable, and yet are mostly deprived. And
with higher beings, that they appear so childlike, so common, so idle and so playful? -

Their greater helplessness also raises them above us, as well as their greater self-
sufficiency, their greater slavery and their greater despotent; And so they are above us
and among us, and yet more connected and indivisible than we are.

Would we love her too, if this were not the case? Love is the love of women, and
women are born with love, and therefore one can understand no one else. Anyone who
wants to find women without love and love without women is like the philosopher who
saw the instinct without the object and the object without the impulse and did not see
both in the concept of action at the same time.

(Materials.) What is not yet a leur porte is not yet ripe. Your occupations. What they
are of any age. Your education.

Your circle. They are like the distinguished Romans, not for making, but for the
enjoyment of the results-for exertion, not for trial.

Chevalerie. Their building - their beauty.

They are a lovely mystery - only cloaked, not closed. The philosophical mysteries
arouse a similar reaction. Hetriet. Your soul powers. Look at the future. The act of
embrace - the Greek goddesses. Madonna. Every nation, every time, has its own
favorite character. The women in poetry. To be loved is essential to them. About the
female seasons. Women and love separate only the mind.

The charcoal and the diamond are one substance, and yet how different! Should not it
be the same with man and woman? We are clay, and the women are succumbents and
sapphires, also of clay.