Although Schiller had listened up to this point ‘with great interest and definite understanding’, he shook his head as Goethe finished, and said – Kantian that he was at that time: ‘That is no experience, that is an idea.’ These words were very disappointing to Goethe. At once his old antipathy towards Schiller rose up, an antipathy caused by much in Schiller’s public utterances which he had found distasteful.