The greatest and most representative expression of Goethe's powers is
without doubt to be found in his drama of "Faust"; but before dealing with
Goethe's masterpiece, it is worth while to say something of the history of the
story on which it is founded - the most famous instance of the old and
widespread legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. The historical
Dr. Faust seems to have been a self-called philosopher who traveled about
Germany in the first half of the sixteenth century, making money by the
practise of magic, fortune-telling, and pretended cures. He died mysteriously
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