. The German classics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; masterpieces of German literature . establish every one comes in contact only with his immediateneighbor, but, at the same time, has an immediate neighboron all sides and in every direction, he is, in fact, indissolublylinked in with the whole. Mystics and Naturalists inreligion, they to whom the Godhead is a personal Being,and they to whom it is not, they who have arrived at a sys-tematic view of the Universe, and they who behold it onlyin its elements or only in obscure chaos — all, notwithstand-ing, should be only one
. The German classics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; masterpieces of German literature . establish every one comes in contact only with his immediateneighbor, but, at the same time, has an immediate neighboron all sides and in every direction, he is, in fact, indissolublylinked in with the whole. Mystics and Naturalists inreligion, they to whom the Godhead is a personal Being,and they to whom it is not, they who have arrived at a sys-tematic view of the Universe, and they who behold it onlyin its elements or only in obscure chaos — all, notwithstand-ing, should be only one, for one band surrounds them all andthey can be totally separated only by a violent and arbi-trary force; every specific combination is nothing but anintegral part of the whole; its peculiar characteristics arealmost evanescent, and are gradually lost in outlines thatbecome more and more indistinct; and at least those whofeel themselves thus united will always be the superiorportion. Whence, then, but through a total misunderstanding,have arisen that wild and disgraceful zeal for proselytism. Permission Velhagen is Kliismg,Bielefeld and Leipzig MORITZ VON SCHWIND THE THREE HERMITS SCHLEIERMACHER: ADDRESS ON RELIGION 29 to a separate and peculiar form of religion, and that hor-rible expression — * no salvation except with us. As Ihave described to you the society of the pious, and as itmust needs be according to its intrinsic nature, it aimsmerely at reciprocal communication, and subsists onlybetween those who are already in possession of religion, ofwhatever character it may be; how then can it be its voca-tion to change the sentiments of those who now acknowl-edge a definite system, or to introduce and consecrate thosewho are totally destitute of one? The religion of thissociety, as such, consists only in the religion of all thepious taken together, as each one beholds it in the rest —it is Infinite; no single individual can embrace it entirely,since so far as it is ind
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