Note 17 — Chapter 25 Dissonance—A New Circle—Desperate Hegelianism—V. Byelinsky, M. Bakunin, and others—A Quarrel with Byelinsky and Reconciliation—Argument with a Lady at Novgorod—Stankevitch’s Circle.

Arnold Ruge (1802-1880) began his political career with six years’ imprisonment in connection with the Burschenschaft movement, founded the Deutsche Jahrbücher, the journal of the Young Hegelian School, and some ten years later Die Reform, a more definitely political paper. From 1849 he lived in England, advocated a universal democratic state, and wrote many books, of which his autobiography is now of most interest.—(Translator’s Note.)