Wit, Wisdom, And Pathos, From the Prose of Heinrich Heine: With a Few Pieces ...
Wit, Wisdom, And Pathos, From the Prose of Heinrich Heine: With a Few Pieces ...
Heinrich Heine
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But since then my predilection for Hellas has diminished. I see now that the Greeks were only handsome youths, while the Jews were always men, powerful, indomitable men, not only formerly, but that they are so even to this day, in spite of eighteen centuries of persecution and misery. R Digitized by VjOOQIC 258 Wi^, Wisdom^ and Pathos, I have now learned to esteem them more worthily, and were not all pride of birth an absurd contradiction in the mouth of a champion of the Revolution and of its ...democratic principles, the writer of these " Confessions " might well be proud that his ancestors were of the noble house of Israel, that he is a descendant of those martyrs who have given to the world a God and an eternal code of morals, and who have fought and suffered on every battlefield of thought. You see how I, who used formerly to quote Homer, now quote the Bible, just like Uncle Tom. And in truth I owe much to the Bible. It reawakened within me religious feeling ; and this new birth of religious feeling suffices for the poet, who can perhaps more easily than any other mortal dis- pense with positive dogmas of faith.
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