Excerpt from Luther's German Version of the Gospel of St. John: With an Interlinear English Translation, for the Use of Students In Hamilton's books, on the contrary, the words of the German text are put together, not as they are found in the original, in their genuine grammatical order, but according to the rules of the English Grammar, to suit the translation underneath, - as if the purpose had been to teach English rather than German. All that can be said in favor of such an artificial disposition of the text, is this, that it renders it more easy for the translator to place a continuous and tolerably correct vernacular version underneath. The student is cer tainly not benefited by being saved the wholesome necessity of attending to the genuine German construction, while he is trying to understand the original by means of a translation, which, by its very deviations from the rules of the English. 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.

Karl/Charles Follen has not only been described as a dangerous revolutionary, but he has also been praised as the emblematic representative of German philosophical idealism and theological liberalism. This edition introduces, for the first time, a broad selection of Follen's controversial writings, emphasizing the multilingual dimension of his oeuvre in Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. His essays, lectures, sermons, speeches, and poems concern the challenges of democracy in the socio-political climate of the political Vormärz in Germany and the Jacksonian era in the United States. Follen's writings emerge as a unique storehouse of ideas on topics such as resistance against an aristocratic government, intellectual self-culture, German-American cultural transfer, challenges of American democracy, the reception of German literature, and philosophy during the crucial years of the American Renaissance.