Poems for the Consideration of Our Age

common to our time: so that his Tower of Babel original: "Thurm zu Babel"; referring to Andreä’s work Turris Babel (1619), which critiqued the intellectual and religious confusion of his day; his warning against curiosity, his magical instruction for the curious, his whirlwind original: "turbo," Latin for a spinning top or whirlwind; here referring to Andreä's comedy Turbo, which satirizes a scholar seeking universal knowledge through magic and folly and so many others of his allegorical guises would be true medicine for the secret wounds of our time, if a skilled hand knew how to prepare them for us with Andreä’s spirit, wit, and knowledge of the age. I will not deny that, as little as I trust myself to possess these gifts, I also intended such a goal with my promised monument the author refers to his current writing or publication as a "Denkmal" or memorial to Andreä; but the fermentation original: "Gährung"; a metaphor for the social and intellectual unrest previously mentioned on page XV is, as it seems to me, not yet ripe, and who has ultimately called me to a task for which I see many more vigorous instruments than myself?

Meanwhile, I cannot close my letter without taking into account the passage