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INTRODUCTION: WACKERNAGEL 13
and, possibly, sentence structure. All this, however,
more to style and less to manner of writing than is allowable.
Our definition, proposed above, will find its best justification
as we amplify further. In that definition we have
affirmed that the mode of representation
is conditioned partly
by the psychological peculiarities of the one who represents,
partly by the matter and purpose of what is represented; that
is, to put it in other words and more briefly, style has a sub-
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and an objective side. For example,
let us take Herder's
academic address 18 on geography. Here the style, the mode
of representation, is on the one hand conditioned objectively
by matter and purpose: by the matter, that is, first
by the
ruling idea of the theme, namely, the utility and attractiveness
graphical studies, and secondly by the substance as a
whole, the entire material of thought with which the one
main idea surrounds itself; by the purpose, in so far as the
attempt is made to win over the audience, and just that sort
of an audience scholars and teachers and their assembled
friends to the recognition and support of this idea, and in
so far as the particular thoughts that are here brought together
been ordered in accordance with this purpose for an
address, and, specifically, for an address given before a
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Objectively considered, therefore, the whole ha> the
of an academic address on geography. To a certain
extent, then, this addiv-- has something in common with every
other add:
given, or ever to be given, on the like theme
such an audience. What distinguishes
it from every
other and ma!.
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It Herder 1 i: the subjective side of
the mode in which Herder alone, juM because he
had hi> particular mind and training, and lived in a particular
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and embellishing his ;
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