Reflections on Lessing's Fragments

...soul is, the essential difference of which I shall show in the course of my observation.

To the shame of the learned world The "learned world" or Gelehrtenrepublik (Republic of Letters) refers to the international community of intellectuals during the Enlightenment., I must sincerely confess that I have not yet found any writings in which they have shown what the difference between the animal and human soul might be, even though a true and essential difference prevails between the two. Therefore, in order to pull the mask from the faces of the learned philosophers and physicists original: "Phisikern." In the 18th century, this term referred to natural philosophers who studied the physical laws of nature.; I shall prove that the greater part of the learned are fantasists and fanatics, and are not at all what they make the unlearned believe. They deceive and betray the world in an illicit and shameful manner, selling mouse droppings for pepper, and poison for Canary sugar Canary sugar was a highly refined, expensive variety of sugar from the Canary Islands, often used as a metaphor for something pure, sweet, and high-quality..