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HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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GERMAN<br />

PHILOSOPHY.<br />

German philosophy is precisely the<br />

opposite of what has hitherto been<br />

called piety and Godly reverence, and<br />

our newest philosophers proclaim the<br />

most thoroughgoing atheism as the last<br />

word of German metaphysics. They<br />

have mercilessly, and in the Bacchanalian<br />

pride of life, torn aside the blue curtains<br />

that veiled the German heaven,<br />

shouting aloud: — " Behold! all the<br />

deities are fled, and up there sits only<br />

an old maid with leaden hands and<br />

sorrowful heart: Necessity." . . .<br />

^\e have now monks of atheism, grand<br />

inquisitors of unbelief who would have<br />

condemned M. Arouet de Voltaire to the<br />

stake, because in his inmost soul he was<br />

a bigoted deist.<br />

FASHIONABLE CHURCHES.<br />

Those holy boudoirs furnished in the<br />

daintiest rococo style, where the censers<br />

give forth the perfume of lavender,<br />

where the confessionals are luxuriously<br />

upholstered, where everything is pervaded<br />

by rose-colored light and languishing<br />

music, everywhere flowers and<br />

wanton angels, a coquettish devotion<br />

fanning itself with Boucher and Watteaufans<br />

—a Pompadour Christianity.

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