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amused with the Straussian " Saviour :" we learn from 

 that work not only what he does not believe (which is 

 less new to me), but what is more, what was believed and 

 taught by the black men who understand how to im- 

 pose fresh fetters upon mankind, who even put on the 

 armour of their former enemies. The passage about 

 Spinoza I shall be glad to copy out. Will not the 

 recent date of the Second Part of the " Christian Doc- 

 trine" (1841) be urged as an objection, in these days 

 when people boast of lecturing from notes made a long 

 while before ? It would seem to me to have been better 

 strategy had he pointed out the unheard-of anachro- 

 nisms, with some remarks about the new-fangled 

 faith* in the whole historical romance of the Apostolic 

 myth-collectors. A man who teaches so publicly 

 himself, must put up with the publicity of the defence 

 of those who differ from him. Such an oral introductory 

 communication, couched in a gentle tone of remon- 

 strance, would only make a later publication of it diffi- 

 cult, and produce a haughty smile or a denial. Not the 

 Spiiiozistic mishap ; no : only this abuse of the noblest 

 intellectual powers in the service of brutalising doc- 

 trines of dark ages is really painful to me. Personally, 

 I confess, the man possessed no attraction for me ; 

 but I felt a sort of liking for him, as indeed I am 

 always carried away and excited when, as in his speech 

 on Art, the gentle breath of fancy gives warmth and 

 life to euphony of speech. Now I have done with him. 

 In his last speech, not that on Art, but the one delivered 



* The remainder of this paragraph refers to Schelling, who had been 

 called to Berlin by the King, and who, after a silence of thirty years, came 

 forth as the champion of a system of mystic philosophy, which, in many 

 respects, is diametrically opposed to* his earlier opinions. TB. 



