Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Prefixed to the statutes of the Ehrenspiegel, are the following lines by the editor. "Der Gottheit Blitzstrahl, der aus finstrer Wolke Aus dieser Sturmzeit, herrlich sich entzundet, Die Liebe, die uns All' in Gott verbundet, Als Gottes Stimm' im Menschen wie im Volke Lebendig neu der Menschheit Urbild grundet, Die durch den Heiland, Die jezt und weiland Uns durch so viel Blutzeugen ist verkundet, Sie gibt das Feuer uns zum kuhnen Handeln, Das Licht, urn frei der Wahrheit Bahn zu wandeln." LITERAL TRANSLATION. "The lightnings of God, from out of dark clouds, Flash gloriously forth in this time of storms, Love, which binds all together in God, As his voice in each man and in nations, Livingly new the image of manhood creates; Vyhich, through the Saviour, Now and for ever, Is shown forth by so many martyrs, 'Tis this for bold deeds gives us ardor, And light in the pathway of truth to walk freely." CHAPTER III. His Devotion to study.—Receives his Degree at the University.—Lecture at Giessen.—Practices Law.—Studies the Deistical Writers.—Takes up the Cause of the Communities. His zealous efforts for the attainment of his great object, the establishment of a Christian German Burschenschaft, which should be governed by principles of justice and a pure morality; and all the struggles and contentions and apparent failures, which followed, did not interfere with that faithful devotion to literary pursuits, which had hitherto distinguished Charles Follen among students. On the contrary, a more constant and regular attention to study was a part of the reform which he and his friends hoped tointroduce into the burschen-leben (student's life.) It was at this period, and during the war of independence, that he and his brother wrote many patriotic songs, some ...