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Excerpt from The Honey-Guides Similarly, it was impossible to compare the parasitic breeding habits of the honey-guides with those of the cowbirds, cuckoos, and other brood parasites until more information was available. It was essential to make such comparisons, and hence it was necessary to find out more about the honey-guides. In the pages that follow I have brought together all that is known of these birds from the literature, from museum specimens, from the unprinted observations of many naturalists in Africa, and from my own personal field studies. If at times it may seem that unnecessary detail has been set forth I would remind the reader that our studies are still in the fact-finding stage, and that some of these possibly tedious minutiae may turn out to be revealing and significant in the light of further data on the one hand, and, on the other, may help to qualify or to support some of the statements derived from them and other similar crumbs of evidence. Throughout, every effort has been made to integrate all available knowledge, even when that integration is still on the merely suggestive level. In a field where the gaps in knowledge and in the evidence are so numerous, it seems better to venture occasionally with an interpretation or an opinion not yet wholly provable by the actual data than to follow the safer, but intellectually sterile, course of attempting to understand nothing because it is not yet possible to understand all. In each of these ventures I have tried to point out clearly that the interpretations are tentative, and quite possibly of more temporary than permanent validity. I consider them important and useful because they will serve to direct further inquiries and to arouse more searching question ings. Also, since few of the naturalists resident in Africa and the appropriate parts of Asia have the chance to know the species of the family not found in their own special areas, they are not in a position to apply the data on one or two species to the problems arising from other related forms elsewhere except through the medium of a com prehensive and integrated report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.show less

Excerpt from Die Leiden des Jungen Werther Und du. Gute Seele. Die du eben den Drang fuhlst wie er, schopfe Trost aus seinen Leiden und lass das Buchleindeinen Freund sein, wenn du aus Geschick oder eigner Schuld keinen nahern finden kannst! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Excerpt from Goethes Faust: Erster und Zweiter Teil Leipzig ber "sau unter bem zitel "sanft. Gin Sragment erfchienen war unb bae beutfche pnblilum bamit zum erftenmal etwao bon biefer (c)ichtung zu lefen belommen hatte, faub fie nur fchwachen Geifall. Stur wenige iberitanbniooolle ahnten bie ganze in blefem Iuerl'e berborgene Groe. 6o ertannte 6chiller barin wohl ben "gorfo beo 55erlule6. Ler ber "saufv war eben boch nur ein Sragmeut, ein florfo. Gar? Sragment war von Goethe eilig rebigiert worben, um e23 noch in ben "6chriften unterzubringen. Abero, ale 1808 ber erfte Geil oollenbet erfchien, fo wie wir ihn heute rennen. Setzt lofte ber "(sau tieffte Mirlung unb allgemeine Begeifterung aus. 6eit biefer Bett hat er auch, bie in unfere 'iage hinein, nicht aufgehort, bie phantafie ber bilbenben Runftler zu befchafttgen. Qie Slluftrationen, bie noch zu Goethes Lebzeiten erfdzienen finb, flub heute in weiteren Rreifen nur wenig, einige von ihnen faft gar nicht berannt. Llnb boch ift eo intereffant zu beobachten, wie fich gerabe bee {dichters} Bettgenoffen mit bem finnft abgefunben haben. 6iub auch ben meiften bon ihnen bie neueren Slluftratoren lunftlerifch uberlegen, fo hatten jene boch bie Geftalten unb 6ituationen beo Gebichtee erft neu zu erfaffen, ohne Irabition unb ohne burch Qluffuhrnngen beo iberleo angeregt zu werben; fanben boch, bon ben prioatauffuhrungen beo 3urften Diabziwill (1819 unb 1820) abgefehen, bie erften offentlichen ?luffuhrnngen erft 1829 ftatt. 3a, bei biefen erften ?luffuhrungeu hat man fich vielmehr bei ben erften Slluftratoren ulnregnngen geholt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Goethe's Faust in Ursprunglicher Gestalt 36 011161100erte no61na16 un1ern ga'n3en 28011010 11111 mi6 en01i6 000111 311 troften, 000 0ent 650e10e016i0 006 31vei 00110ein101116e 301111010101, 0e10nnte 11110 11n0e10nnte 930101100n1en0 en10011en0, 0e1011e0en 1e1en. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.