[204] W. Seufert, Der Ursprung und die Bedeutung des Apostolates, 1887, p. 46; Sir G. W. Cox, lect. in Religious Systems of the World, 3rd ed. p. 242. [205] A propos d'histoire des religions, p. 295. [206] Id. p. 310. [207] Les évangiles, i, 172, 173. Contrast the case put long ago by Zeller, The Acts of the Apostles, Eng. tr. 1875, i, 129-30. [208] Compare, however, the elaborate essay of Prof. G. A. Deissmann, in his Bible Studies (Eng. tr. 1901), on "Letters and Epistles," p. 48. [209] Short History of Christianity, 2nd ed. p. 4. [210] Wieland was something of a Freethinker; but when Napoleon in the famous interview mooted the problem raised by Dupuis and Volney, Wieland treated it as pure absurdity. He was then an old man. [211] The Quest of the Historical Jesus (Eng. tr. of Von Reimarus zu Wrede), 1910, p. 153. [212] Schweitzer, p. 151. [213] Id. p. 159. [214] Work cited, p. 161. [215] Id. p. 329. [216] Id. p. 343. [217] Id. p. 395. [218] Compare Dalman, The Words of Jesus, p. 313. [219] I.e., the old German "rationalism" so-called, the theological method of compromise with reason. [220] Id. pp. 396-97. [221] Adonis, Attis, Osiris, 3rd ed. (vols. v and vi of 3rd ed. of The Golden Bough) i, 312, note. See the passage discussed in Christianity and Mythology, 2nd ed. p. 281. [222] Adonis, Attis, Osiris, as cited, ii, 19 sq., and pref. to vol. i. [223] Compare Prof. W. B. Smith's criticism of the "great man" theory as put by Von Soden--Ecce Deus, p. 9 sq. [224] See the brochure of Prof. R. H. Grützmacher, Ist das liberale Jesusbild modern? 1907.