Kaisermarsch
Unwavering in their pursuit of a final result and honoringonly truth,
they proceeded from one understanding to the next, seeking to grasp each
historical phenomenon based on the sets of assumptions of its own time, thereby
justifying it in its historical necessity. This criticalhistorical method, in
principle common to the scientific community, is, as I claim, the exact
opposite of a dogmatic point of view which demands ongoing self-confirmation:
Mr. N could not overlook this either. His remedy is to revile the
historical-critical method denouncing any aesthetic view that deviates from his
own and blaming an age in which philology in Germany was raised to never before
imagined heights for “completely perverting the true purpose of antiquarian
studies ”
Future Philology! - Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
ΠΡΙΝ ΤΟ ΣΦΥΡΟΚΟΠΗΜΑ :
Concerning talk about philologist, if it comes from philologists one learns nothing; it is purely chatter-for example Jahn. No feeling for what to defent, what to protect: thus speak people who still haven’t imagined that they can be attacked
Wir Philologen - Nietzsche