Addresses to the German Nation

that no one else can do so either; that consequently
everything spoken or written must have
a relation to this newspaper Zeitung Continuing from the previous page, Fichte critiques the "newspaper-mind" which views all intellectual work as mere topical commentary. and
should serve as a commentary upon it.
I ask these people to consider that no one can
say: "Look, this person is meant here,
and that one!"—unless he has first
judged within himself that this or that person
really and truly is such that
he could be meant here; that therefore
no one can accuse a writer Schriftsteller who remains
in the realm of the general—who, in a rule
encompassing all time, forgets every particular time—
of satire Satyre, without first having created that
satire himself as its original and independent author Urheber,
and thus, in a most foolish manner,
betraying his own most secret thoughts Gedanken Fichte argues that a reader who sees a specific contemporary person being mocked in a general philosophical text is actually the one "writing" the insult through their own projection..

Then there are those who have no fear
of things themselves, but rather of the
words used for those things, and of these
an excessive fear. You may [count] them among the