21. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Der Sammler und die Seinigen,” Achter Brief, Sechste Abteilung (first published in Propyläen II/ 2, 1799), in Goethe, Werke. Hamburger Ausgabe in 14 Bände, vol. 12, Schriften zur Kunst, ed. Erich Trunz, commentary by Herbert von Einem (Munich: C. H. Beck, 1981), 94. For different translations, see Goethe: The Collected Works, III, Essays on Art and Literature, ed. John Gearey, tr. Ellen von Nardroff and Ernest H. Von Nardroff (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), 158; and Goethe on Art, ed. and tr. John Gage (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980), 70. The passage is discussed more fully in chapter 13 below.