[13] [The reader will remember (it is to be hoped he has
never forgotten) that "mind" and "spirit" are one and the
same word in German. For several pages back the connection
of the discourse has seemed to require the almost exclusive
use of the translation "spirit," but to complete the sense
it has often been necessary that the reader recall the
thought of its identity with "mind," as stated in a previous
note.]
[14] "Essence of Christianity."
[15] [Or, "highest essence." The word _Wesen_, which means
both "essence" and "being," will be translated now one way
and now the other in the following pages. The reader must
bear in mind that these two words are identical in German:
and so are "supreme" and "highest."]
[16] Cf. _e. g._ "Essence of Christianity," p. 402.
[17] [That is, the abstract conception of man, as in the
preceding sentence.]
[18] _E. g._, Rom. 8. 9, 1 Cor. 3. 16, John 20. 22, and
innumerable other passages.
[19] [_Heil_]
[20] [_heilig_]
[21] How the priests tinkle! how important they
Would make it out, that men should come their way
And babble, just as yesterday, to-day!
Oh! blame them not! They know man's need, I say;
For he takes all his happiness this way,
To babble just to-morrow as to-day.
--_Translated from Goethe's "Venetian Epigrams."_
[22] [_fremd_]
[23] [_fremd_]
[24] [_einzig_]
[25] ["the supreme being."]
[26] [_heilig_]
[27] [_heilig_]
[28] [_einzig_]
[29] [_gefangen und befangen_, literally "imprisoned and
prepossessed."]
[30] [_besessene_]
[31] [_versessen_]
[32] "_Achtzehntes Jahrhundert_," II, 519.
[33] "_De la Création de l'Ordre_" etc., p. 36.
[34] "_Anekdota_," II, 64.
[35] [_dieselbe Phantastin wie die Phantasie_]
[36] [The same word as "intellectual" as "mind" and "spirit"
are the same.]
[37] "Essence of Christianity," second edition, p. 402.
[38] P. 403.
[39] P. 408.
[40] [Literally "the man."]
[41] [_Uneigennuetzigkeit_, literally "un-self-benefitingness."]
[42] [_vernuenftig_, derived from _vernehmen_, to hear.]
[43] [A German idiom for destructive radicalism.]
[44] [The same word that has been translated "custom"
several times in this section.]
[45] [_Ehrfurcht_]
[46] [_gefuerchtet_]
[47] [_geehrt_]
[48] Rousseau, the Philanthropists, and others were hostile
to culture and intelligence, but they overlooked the fact
that this is present in _all_ men of the Christian type, and
assailed only learned and refined culture.
[49] [Literally, "sacrificing"; the German word has not the
prefix "self."]
[50] "_Volksphilosophie unserer Tage_," p. 22.
[51] [_Muth_]
[52] [_Demuth_]
[53] [Called in English theology "original sin."]
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