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Painted portraitAnton Graff · Public domain

Friedrich Schiller

Schiller compares reforming a state to repairing a watch while it runs. His account of independence asks how people can move from natural necessity toward action guided by reason.

1759 AD – 1805 AD · 34 collected ↗