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162 * BETTINA.
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jp . pt hear their ; immediate proximity g , for fear of stumbling . over them at any moment . "
our for " the reli The g latter ious development libertv Faith . of must It our is impossible create political doubts freedom to obtain and must teach the first go us hand to , w think ithout in . han strugg All d faith with ling
. , exists merely to be changed into knowledge . ' * " Whenever the mind opens to reflectionit ought to be unrestrained and
, unlimited as destiny . " " All faith not in conformity with reason , is a sin against the spirit . "
development _" Without of reli nature gious and liberty spirit , Go is d ' infinite s own words . Throug become h faith a , mockery man excludes . * The special himself will from of God this . infinite Every thing development even the , and lifeless sins stone thereb grows y against in nature the ;
, , and yet the all-enlivening spirit is not to be allowed to grow !" and " From arise all the cruelties delusion . in Yirtue attempting is for to the force present peop , not le into for blessedness the future . , " arose
and " That wisdom pure that inherent divine feeling power of which a Divinity the inquisiti , which on urge s in s State us to and seek Church truth describe Faithand as ' , their works perverted of iniquity faith , ' and is Unbelief which they . I punish cease , — to it believe alone is when True I
know . , " " Let him who awakes from a dream , cling to reality . "
" The divine can only manifest itself through what is earthly ; the Finite alone confirms the Infinite . " * * * The hiher life of this wonderful woman thus reflects the chief
feature of g our age , viz ., the yearning . for religious liberty and in- - dividual development .
She did not forfeit the king ' s favor by her book ; but she lost it , when years later she expressed her sympathy with Kinkel ' s fate .
It was through , her that Frau Kinkel sent her petition to the Princess of Prussia , and Bettina never tired of defending her friend , Dr .
Kinkel , against the mischievous attacks of his adversaries . We have now to notice once more Bettina ' s correspondence with
Goethe , which she herself translated into English , in 1839 . She had long urged upon an English friend , that this correspondence
th oug at ht to countrymen be known in would Engl be and unable . Mrs . to Austin comprehend reiterated , far less vain to ,
appreciate her book . Bettina suffered no contradiction and the book was published . But we had better allow her to speak for herself .
The third volume , her diary , she begins with the following speech .: '' Gentlemen ,, with im
mortality " The noble , is here cup filled of with your odd mellifluous but pure ton and gue fiery so draught often brimmed ; do not refuse to - taste if relish its irit to Jbe homefeltthough not honieborn .
you sp , " BETTI 35 _TA . " Her prefaceor preamble as she calls itcontains the following :
, , penury " The that rigour allow against s no great any choice arbitrariness , it consisting in that language in thirty , thousand . , besides words , its b htTh
I thought if I only did know them , to "e sure I would find the rig . en
162 * Bettina.
162 * BETTINA .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/18/
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