So, in his book On Religion, which was a kind of book of apologetics, he tried to show that religion is universal and has to do with feelings—a particular kind of feeling that he labeled Gefühl. There’s an old English translation for the German word Gefühl, and so we translate it as the feeling of utter dependence. Schleiermacher was arguing that religion is universal and inescapable; that all human beings are, in essence, religious whether they know it or not or call it that or not. And yet he said