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