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Updated: June 2, 2025

The Herder and Schleiermacher school have claimed him as a Christian a position which no little disguise was necessary to make tenable; the orthodox Protestants and Catholics have called him an Atheist which is still more extravagant; and even a man like Novalis, who, it might have been expected, would have had something reasonable to say, could find no better name for him than a Gott trunkner Mann a God intoxicated man: an expression which has been quoted by everybody who has since written upon the subject, and which is about as inapplicable as those laboriously pregnant sayings usually are.

James Anthony Froude - Short Studies on Great Subjects