Chapter XVIII (continued 1)
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121 Cp. Dr. G. Karo, Johann Salomo Semler, 1905, p. 25; Saintes, pp. 129–31. ↑
122 Cp. Gostwick, p. 51; Pünjer, i, 561. ↑
123 Karo, p. 44. ↑
124 Cp. Saintes, p. 132 sq. ↑
125 Cp. Karo, pp. 3, 8, 16, 28. ↑
126 Over a hundred and seventy in all. Pünjer, i, 560; Gastrow, p. 637. ↑
127 Karo, pp. 5–6. ↑
128 Gastrow, p. 223. ↑
129 Pusey, p. 142; A. S. Farrar, Crit. Hist. of Freethought, p. 313. ↑
130 Cp. Karo, p. 5 sq.; Stäudlin, cited by Tholuck, Abriss, p. 39. ↑
131 Kahnis. p. 116. ↑
132Wahre Gründe wanum Gott die Offenbarung nicht mit augenscheinlichen Beweisen versehen hat. ↑
133Die Göttliche Eingebung, 1771. ↑
134Beweis das Gott die Menschen bereits durch seine Offenbarung in der Natur zur Seligkeit fuhre. ↑
135 Gostwick, p. 53; Pünjer, i, 546, note. ↑
136 Cp. Kahnis, pp. 132–36, as to Bahrdt’s early morals. ↑
137Geschichte seines Lebens, etc. 1700–91, iv, 119. ↑
138 See below, p. 331. ↑
139Geschichte seines Lebens, Kap. 22; ii, 223 sq. ↑
140 Baur, Gesch. der chr. Kirche, iv. 597. ↑
141 Translated into English in 1789. ↑
142 Mendelssohn, Jerusalem, Abschn. I—Werke, 1838 p. 239 (Eng. tr. 1838, pp. 50–51); Rousseau, Contrat Social, liv, iv, ch. viii, near end; Locke, as cited above, p. 117. Cp. Bartholmèss, Hist. crit. des doctr. relig. de la philos. moderne, 1855, i, 145; Baur, as last cited. ↑
143 See his Werke, ed. 1866, v, 317—Aus dem Briefe, die neueste Literatur betreffend, 49ter Brief. ↑
144 If Lessing’s life were sketched in the spirit in which orthodoxy has handled that of Bahrdt, it could be made unedifying enough. Even Goethe remarks that Lessing “enjoyed himself in a disorderly tavern life” (Wahrheit und Dichtung, B. vii); and all that Hagenbach maliciously charges against Basedow in the way of irregularity of study is true of him. On that and other points, usually glossed over, see the sketch in Taylor’s Historic Survey of German Poetry, 1830, i, 332–37. All the while, Lessing is an essentially sound-hearted and estimable personality; and he would probably have been the last man to echo the tone of the orthodox towards the personal life of the freethinkers who went further in unbelief than he. ↑
145E.g. his fable The Bull and the Calf (Fabeln, ii, 5), à propos of the clergy and Bayle. ↑
146 Sime, Life of Lessing, 1877, i, 102. ↑
147E.g. his early notice of Diderot’s Lettre sur les Aveugles. Sime, i, 94. ↑
148Dramaturgie, Stück 7. ↑
149 Sime, i, 103–109. ↑
150 Sime, i, 73, 107; ii, 253. ↑
151 In his Gedanke über die Herrnhuter, written in 1750. See Adolf Stahr’s Lessing, sein Leben und seine Werke, 7te Aufl. ii, 183 sq. ↑
152 Julian Schmidt puts the case sympathetically: “He had learned in his father’s house what value the pastoral function may have for the culture of the people. He was bibelfest, instructed in the history of his church, Protestant in spirit, full of genuine reverence for Luther, full of high respect for historical Christianity, though on reading the Fathers he could say hard things of the Church.” Gesch. der deutschen Litteratur von Leibniz bis auf unsere Zeit, ii (1886), 326. ↑
153 Taylor, as cited, p. 361. ↑
154 Sime, i, 73. ↑
155 See Lessing’s rather crude comedy, Der Freigeist, and Sime’s Life, i, 41–42, 72, 77. ↑
156 Cp. his letters to his brother of which extracts are given by Sime, ii, 191–92. ↑
157 Sime, ii, 188. ↑
158 As to the authorship see Saintes, pp. 101–102; and Sime’s Life of Lessing, i, 261–62, where the counter-claim is rejected. ↑
159Zur Geschichte und Literatur, aus dem 4ten Beitr.—Werke, vi. 142 sq. See also in his Theologische Streitschriften the Axiomata written against Pastor Goeze. Cp. Schwarz, Lessing als Theologe, 1854, pp. 146, 151; and Pusey, as cited, p. 51. note. ↑
160 Compare the regrets of Pusey (pp. 51, 153), Cairns (p. 195), Hagenbach (pp. 89–97), and Saintes (p. 100). ↑