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[10] Italicized in the original for the sake of its etymology, _Scharfsinn_--"sharp-sense." Compare next paragraph.

[11] 2 Cor. 5. 17. [The words "new" and "modern" are the same in German.]

[12] [t.i.tle of a poem by Schiller.]

[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 ident.i.ty 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 pa.s.sages.

[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 Creation 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 a.s.sailed 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."]

[54] [Goethe, "Faust."]

[55] "_Anekdota_," II, 152.

[56] [Schiller, "_Die Worte des Glaubens_."]