John Leonard
Entry B31 of the Sudelbücher runs, in its entirety, Im Zuschauer wird gesagt: The whole man must move together, alles muß einen einzigen Endzweck im Menschen haben
; written in the opening of notebook C, before any of the entries, is again the phrase (again in English) The whole man must move together
. I can't remember where anymore, but I somehow got the idea that the quotation was from Addison (I may have gotten that impression solely internally, from the fact that his is the name I mostly associate with the Spectator (incidentally it's extremely strange to me that Lichtenberg translates "Spectator" to "Zuschauer", but leaves the quotation in English)), and I just assumed that Lichtenberg had the quotation right. I am not alone in this, though admittedly not in a great crowd of folks either (some of those links are about Hofmannsthal, too, not Lichtenberg). But this, apparently, is what he was actually thinking of, from Spectator nr. 6, Wednesday, March 7, 1711:
I lay it down therefore for a Rule, That the whole Man is to move together; that every Action of any Importance is to have a Prospect of publick Good; and that the general Tendency of our indifferent Actions ought to be agreeable to the Dictates of Reason, of Religion, of good Breeding; without this, a Man, as I have before hinted, is hopping instead of walking, he is not in his entire and proper Motion.
And it's by Steele, not Addison (and stuffed into the mouth of one Sir ROGER, moreover).
Comments
on 2007-06-28 22:49:47.0, bitchphd commented:
All the best parts of the Spectator are Steele's, really. Although you have to be careful about Sir Roger.
and, further, on 2007-06-28 22:52:10.0, ben wolfson commented:
You know there was a chamber music ensemble in the mid-18thC called "Steely Roger" after that character, right?
and, further, on 2007-06-29 0:40:13.0, bitchphd commented:
I don't believe you, but nice try.