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religion, which is individual right, liberty, 

 respect, — that belief which breathes a 

 something divine into the heart of man. In 

 the course of events, the progress of Indo- 

 European nations will consist in separating 

 itself more and more from the Shemitic 

 mind. Our religion will retain less and 

 less of Judaism ; more and more will it 

 resist all political organization in matters 

 •oncerning the soul. It will become the re- 

 ligion of the heart, — the inmost poetry of 

 each human being. In morality we shall at- 

 tain to a delicate nicety unknown to the 

 beings of the Old Alliance ; we shall become 

 more and more Christians. In politics we 

 shall ^reconcile two things always ignored 

 by Shemitic nations, — liberty, and a strong 

 political organization. In poetry, we shall 

 require an expression of that instinct of 

 infinity which is at once our delight and 

 our dread: in either case, our true no- 

 bility. In philosophy, instead of scholastic 

 dogmatism, we shall open up vistas of the 

 general system of the world. In short, 



