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The Two Basic Maxims Of The So-called Historical Criticism Are The Postulate Of The Common And The Axiom Of The Ordinary. Postulate Of The Common: Everything Really Great, Good, And Beautiful, Is Improbable, Since It Is Extraordinary And Therefore At Least Suspect. Axiom Of The Ordinary: Our Conditions And Environment Must Have Existed Everywhere, For They Are Really So Natural.

Separate Religion From Morality, And You Have The True Energy For Evil Within Man, The Terrible, Cruel, Devastating, And Inhuman Principle Which Naturally Lies In His Spirit. Here The Division Of The Indivisible Punishes Itself Most Awfully.

Duty Is For Kant The One And All. Out Of The Duty Of Gratitude, He Claims, One Has To Defend And Esteem The Ancients; And Only Out Of Duty Has He Become A Great Man.

Every Relationship Of Man To The Infinite Is Religion, Namely Of A Man In The Full Abundance Of His Humanity. Whenever A Mathematician Calculates Infinity, That, To Be Sure, Is Not Religion. Infinity Conceived In This Abundance Is The Godhead.

Only Through Religion Can Logic Develop Into Philosophy, Only From This Source Stems That Which Makes Philosophy More Than Science. And Without Religion We Will Have Only Novels, Or The Triviality Today Called Belles Lettres Instead Of An Eternally Rich And Infinite Poetry.