The book On Religion; Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers was written by author Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 1768-1834 Here you can read free online of On Religion; Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is On Religion; Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers a good or bad book?
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Finally they unwillingly rend asunder utterly the connection of the inner and the outer, chase the impo- tent understanding and end in a holy madness, the source of which almost no man knows. They are loud screaming but not understood victims of the general contempt and mal- treatment of the heart of man. Only victims, however, not Digitized by VjOOQ IC THE CULTIVA TION OF RELIGION. 135 heroes^ for whosoever snccambs^ though it be in the final test, cannot be reckoned among the recipients of th...e inmost mysteries. This complaint that there are no permanent^ openly recog- nized representatives of religion among as, is not to recall my earlier assertions that our age is not less favourable to religion than any other. The amount of religion in the -world is not diminished, but it is broken up and driven apart by an oppressive force. It reveals itself in small and fleeting though frequent manifestations that rather exalt the variety of the Universe and delight the eye of the observer, than produce for itself a great and sublime im- pression.
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