HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

Heinrich Heine
relations of all his literary opponents, both theological
and political — has rendered himself the object,
not at all to our astonishment, of equal aversion
and alarm, even in the most liberally governed
of the German communities; and with talents
which no one refuses to admire, and attainments
which it would be worse than idle to disparage, he
has thus contrived, at what may be called an early
period of a literary life, to make it all but impossible
for himself to exist on his native soil. He has
accordingly transplanted himself to Paris, and there
associated himself in an intimate league, offensive
and defensive, with the most violent section of the
Jacobin Propagandists — whose plans embrace the
entire extirpation of the Christian faith in each and
all its modifications, and the total abolition of monarchy
and aristocracy in Europe." ^^
As evidence of Heine's destructive intentions,
the reviewer analyzed in detail the doctrine of the
rehabilitation of the flesh. He held that this abominable
doctrine could arouse only wonder and horror
among Englishmen, and yet Heine was apparently
sincere in advocating it.
The slogan "rehabilitation of the flesh," which
Heine and the writers of "Young Germany" had
taken over from the French followers of St. Simon
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