446 SCHELLING treatises should be mentioned, the Exposition of the True Relation of the Philosophy of Nature to the Improved Doc- trine of Fichte, 1806, in which his former friend is charged with plagiarism, and Xt Memorial of the Treatise on Divine Things by Herr facobi, 18 12, which answers a bitter attack of Jacobi still more bitterly. From this on our philosopher, once so fond of writing, becomes silent.* The often prom- ised issue of the positive philosophy, which had already been twice commenced in print [The Ages of the World, 18 15 ; Mythological Lectures, 1830), was both times suspended. Being called to the Berlin Academy by Frederick Wil- liam IV., in order to counterbalance the prevailing Hegel- ianism, Schelling delivered lectures in the university also (on Mythology and Revelation), which he ceased, how- ever, when notes taken by his hearers were printed without his consent.f His collected works were published in four- teen volumes (1856-61) under the care of his son, K. E. A. Schelling.:}: The leading motive in Schelling's thinking is an un- usually powerful fancy, which gives to his philosophy a lively, stimulating, and attractive character, without making it to a like degree logically satisfactory. If the systems of Fichte and Hegel, which jn their content are closely related to Schelling's, impress us by their logical severity, Schelling chains us by his lively intuition and his suggest- ive power of feeling his way into the inner nature of things. With him analogies outweigh reasons ; he is more concerned about the rich content of concepts than about
- Besides a supplement to Die Weltalter and his inaugural lecture at Berlin,
he published only two prefaces, one to Viktor Cousin tiber franzosiscke und deutscke Phi/osophie, done into German by Hubert Beckers, 1834, and one to Steffens's Nachgelassene Schriften, 1846. f Paulus, Die etidlich offenbar gewordene positive Philosophie der Offen- harufig, 1843. Frauenstadt had previously published a sketch from this later doctrine, 1842. I On Schelling of. the Lectures by K. Rosenkranz, 1843; the articles by Heyder in vol. xiii. of Herzog's Realencyclopddie fur protestantise he Theologie, i860, and Jodl in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie ; R. Haym, Die romantische Schule, 1870; Aus Schellings Leben, in Briefen, edited by Plitt, 3 vols., 1869-70. [Cf. also Watson's Schelling's Transcendental Idealism (Griggs's Philosophical Classics, 1882) ; and several translations from Schelling in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. — Tr.]
