Rational Thoughts on the Powers of Human Understanding (German Logic)

Preface ###

commanded to proceed to the higher faculties Facultäten; the professional graduate schools of Theology, Law, and Medicine (to use our German way of speaking); then one will find how much more quickly and effectively they learn their trade Handwerck; here used metaphorically to mean a professional career or craft. I could confirm this with my own experience, were it not for the risk of incurring an undeserved suspicion from those of an opposing mind original: Wiedriggesinneten; those hostile to the author's reforms. However, it is not necessary: for there ha-

     -ritories enjoy established scholarships original: stipendien and the recently established free tables original: Frey-Tische; a form of financial aid providing free meals to impoverished students, as well as all the members original: Conventualen of our monastery of Hillersleben—which has been transferred to Halle—you must indicate to them with earnestness and emphasis that they are first to study these philosophical subjects original: studia Philosophica and more refined literature original: politiorem litteraturam; the humanities, including classical languages and rhetoric exclusively for at least one year, and thereafter continue with them alongside their theological studies original: studio Theologico.... but if they are found negligent in this regard and skip such lectures original: collegia despite a prior warning original: prævia exhortatione, they shall immediately lose the benefit original: beneficii; the financial support or scholarship and others shall be taken in their place.