Feuerbach. Theologians had sought in the historical Jesus some measure of objectivity. But “something absolute as a part of world and of human history as such is a sword of lath. Strauss’ book made this very plain and well understood, and those who read it were shaken to the core, for it was precisely upon the card of history that they had staked no less than half their means, the other half being on that of religious consciousness. The situation was such that in running away from Feuerbach they
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