HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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BRITISH
MISSIONS.
They expect to elevate a petty, narrow
dogma to supremacy, and to monopolize
heaven as they do the sea, making it a
British Church domain — and see, Avithout
knowing it, they are demanding the
over-throw of all Protestant sects: for,
as they all draw their life from the Bible,
Avhen the knowledge of the Bible becomes
universal, all sectarian distinctions
will be obliterated. While by
tricks of trade, smuggling, and commerce
the British gain footholds in
many lands, with them they bring the
Bible, that grand democracy wherein
each man shall not only be king in
his own house, but also bishop. They
are demanding, they are founding,
the great Kingdom of the spirit, the
Kingdom of the religious emotions, and
the love of humanity, of purity, of true
morality, which cannot be taught by
dogmatic formulas, but by parable and
example, such as are contained in that
beautiful, sacred educational book for
young and old — the Bible.
TEUTONIC
CRAZES.
A French madness falls short of a German
lunacy in violence, for in the latter,
as Polonius would say, there is method.