Identifier: germanclassicsof05fran (find matches)
Title: The German classics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; masterpieces of German literature
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Francke, Kuno, 1855-1930 Howard, William Guild, b. 1868 Singer, Isidore, 1859-1939
Subjects: German literature German literature English literature
Publisher: Albany, N. Y. : J. B. Lyon company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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hich are eithernothing in themselves, or which any other person was quiteas capable of accomplishing as they. I should pour out myheart but very imperfectly before you, on a subject towhich I attach the utmost importance, if I did not under-take to give you the correct point of view with regard to it.I need not here repeat how many of the perverted en-deavors and melancholy fortunes of humanity you chargeupon religious associations; this is clear as light, in a thou-sand utterances of your predominant individuals; nor willI stop to refute these accusations, one by one, in order tofix the evil upon other causes. Let us rather submit thewhole conception of the church to a new examination, andfrom its central point, throughout its whole extent, erectit again upon a new basis, without regard to what it hasactually been hitherto, or to what experience may suggestconcerning it. If religion exists at all, it must needs possess a socialcharacter; this is founded not only in the nature of man,
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Permission E. Linde if Co., Berlin FRIEDRICH SCHLEIERMACHER E. Hader SCHLEIERMACHER: ADDRESS ON RELIGION 21 but still more in the nature of religion. You will acknowl-edge that it indicates a state of disease, a signal perversionof nature, when an individual wishes to shut up withinhimself anything which he has produced and elaborated byhis own efforts. It is the disposition of man to reveal andto communicate whatever is in him, in the indispensablerelations and mutual dependence not only of practical life,but also of his spiritual being, by which he is connectedwith all others of his race; and the more powerfully he iswrought upon by anything, the more deeply it penetrateshis inward nature, so much the stronger is this social im-pulse, even if we regard it only from the point of view ofthe universal endeavor to behold the emotions which wefeel ourselves, as they are exhibited by others, so that wemay obtain a proof from their example that our own expe-rience is not beyond the sphere

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