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About Legislation and Infanticide (Introduction) 

In the course of the Age of Enlightenment many authors in Europe concern themselves with the problem of penal legislation and execution of the sentence. Especially much stir then caused the numerous infanticides which all have been avenged with the death penalty. Also Goethe, as everybody knows, took care of this subject in Faust I.
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'The Evening Hour of a Hermit' (Introduction) 

In his ethic-political magazine 'Ephemeriden der Menschheit' (Ephemeredes of Mankind) in May 1780 he published Pestalozzi's first important work: 'Die Abendstunde eines Einsiedlers' (The Evening Hour of a Hermit). Pestalozzi deliberately wanted to give this work a programmatic function.
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Analysis of the 'Inquiries' (Introduction)

In the same year as the Fables (Figures About My ABC-Book) there was published Pestalozzi's most important philosophic work, generally shortly called Nachforschungen (Inquiries). It is the fruit of years of work. The far too optimistic view of the Abendstunde (Evening Hour) turned out to be a dead end, but also the hard realism and pessimism of the Leutnantsphilosophie (Lieutenant-Philosophy) Pestalozzi more and more found a 'beschränkten Gesichtspunkt' (dense point of view) (Sämtliche Briefe 3, p. 300), as the Nicoloviusbrief (Nicolovius-Letter) which became famous shows.
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Pestalozzi's Literary Main Work: Lienhard und Gertrud (Lienhard and Gertrud)

All the works and letters of Pestalozzi fill about 45 thick volumes and yet his works are almost unknown. It is true that many people know that he wrote 'Lienhard and Gertrud', but only few also read this novel: a stylistically nonuniform work which in the 1st and 2nd volume strikes the note of the people's language and in the 3rd and 4th volume ends in profound theoretic treatises.
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