Excerpt from The Auto-Biography of Goethe, Vol. 2 of 2: Truth and Poetry, From My Life IN the treatment of a multifarious Biography like this, which we have dared to undertake, we are obliged, if we would make certain events intelligible and readable, to separate things which concur in respect to time to concentrate others which can only be comprehended in their succession, and in this way to bring together the whole, in parts, which we can judge of and appro priste as we look them over. With this remark we open the present volume, and let it con tribute to the justification of our proceeding, while we add the request that our readers will consider the narrative herein re sumed as not connected immediately with the end of the preced ing book, but that it proposes to take up the principal threads to gether, by degrees, and present persons, as well as opinions and actions, in a fair and well founded sequence. 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.