HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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VICTOR
HUGO.
Victor Hugo is an Egoist, or, to use a
stronger term, he is a Hugoist.
THE
BIBLE.
Although at heart a Hellenist, I have
derived not only entertainment, but also
solid edification from the Bible.
What a book it is ! Vast as the universe,
striking its roots into the very
depths of creation, and towering aloft
into the mysterious blue of heaven.
Sunrise and sunset, promise and fulfilment,
birth and death — the whole
drama of humanity is to be found in
this book. It is the books of Books,
Bihlia. . . . A book ? Yes, an old
homely-looking book, modest as nature
and natural as it; a book that has a
work a-day and unassuming look, like
the sun that warms us, like the
bread that nourishes us, a book that
seems to us as familiar and as full of
kindly blessing as the old grandmother,
who reads daily in it with dear trembling
lips, and with six'ctacles on her
nose. And the Book is called quite
shortly — The Book, the Bible. Rightly
do men also call it the Holy S(.'ripture,
He that has lost his God can find him