Note 8 — Part III
Reading edition
This use of the word sentimental in regard to the love of nature for its own sake, is not by any means unprecedented. Schiller, in his essay Ueber naive und sentimentale Dichtung, as an advocate in favour of the love in question, constantly refers to it as sentimental. (See 1838 Edition of Works, Vol. XII, pp. 167-281.)