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Preface.

The following addresses were delivered in Berlin during the winter of 1807–08, in a series of lectures, and as a continuation of the Characteristics of the Present Age original: "Grundzüge des gegenwärtigen Zeitalters." This refers to a series of lectures Fichte gave previously, which critiqued the egoism and social decay he perceived in his era. (printed by the same publishing house in 1806), which were delivered in that same place during the winter of 1804–05. Whatever needed to be said to the public regarding them and through them is expressed within the addresses themselves; consequently, no preface was required. Since, however, through the manner of printing these ad-