For the most part, the whole humoristic dress
seems only assumed in order to make the matter, which is in the last
degree radical, less injurious. As to the object of these `sayings
and narratives reported from memory' of the Frau Rath, (since she
leads the conversation throughout,) our sketch must be short. `It is
Freedom which constitutes the truest being' of man. Man should be
free from all traditions, from all prejudices, since every holding on
somewhat traditional, is unbelief, spiritual selfmurder. The God's
impulse to truth is the only right belief. Man himself should handle
and prove, `since whoever reflects on a matter, has always a better
right to truth, than who lets himself be slapped on the cheek by an
article-of-Faith.' By Sin she understands that which derogates from
the soul, since every hindrance and constraint interrupts the
Becoming of the soul. In general, art and science have only the
destination to make free what is bound. But the human spirit can
rule all, and, in that sense, `man is God, only we are not arrived so
far as to describe the true pure Man in us.
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