Poems for the Consideration of Our Age

zation must have been as refined as his moral sense is: for his wit wit: intellectual ingenuity or sharp-mindedness, his remarks, the entire direction of his feelings in sorrow and in joy, even his sharpest judgments and his bitterest satire, are always moral in the most refined sense.

The immeasurable storehouse of his knowledge, the peculiar flexibility of his spirit toward all art and everything beautiful and worthy of knowing—and even more so the distracting busyness in which he lived, his early connections and social circles with the many types of people produced by the fermentation original: "Gährung"; a reference to the intense social, religious, and intellectual unrest of the 17th century of the previous century—none of this could lead him away from that "One True" thing, which is the constant spirit of his writings and which rises like a blossom out of every stylistic disguise original: "Einkleidung"; referring to the allegorical or formal literary "clothing" Andreä used to present his ideas.