Goethian

Looked at then in this way, the book sets before us more fully than any other book of Goethe’s, and in a highly remarkable, if not a perfectly satisfactory way, what we may call the Goethian philosophy of culture.

Criticisms and Interpretations. III. By Sir J. R. Seeley 1917

Darwinians who start with inborn variations, but it is open to question whether the whole truth of what we might call the Goethian position is exhausted in the postulate of inherent variability.

Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880

Of such we have had an example in the condition of Europe during the times immediately following the Reformation; another, though limited to the Continent and to a more cultivated class, in the speculative movement of the latter half of the eighteenth century; and a third, of still briefer duration, in the intellectual fermentation of Germany during the Goethian and Fichtean period.

Chapter II. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion 1909

The gods, one might say in Goethian phrase, did not intend us to share their own manner of being; or, if you prefer it, in the language of

Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life Vernon Lee 1895

Treviranus [22] (1776-1837), whom Huxley ranked beside Lamarck, was on the whole Buffonian, attaching chief importance to the influence of a changeful environment both in modifying and in eliminating, but he was also Goethian, for instance in his idea that species like individuals pass through periods of growth, full bloom, and decline.

Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880

Of such we have had an example in the condition of Europe during the times immediately following the Reformation; another, though limited to the Continent and to a more cultivated class, in the speculative movement of the latter half of the eighteenth century; and a third, of still briefer duration, in the intellectual fermentation of Germany during the Goethian and Fichtean period.

II. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion 1869