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    have announced their resolution of publishing bis philotdphicai writing ^ with a due regard to , his fame , and in a spirit more congenial Ttfith his bettefr feelings , free from

    personalities and effusions of anger . He wate much attached to the English writers of philosophy . He entertained a high esteem for lA > tfc € as a useful practical writer , though he did not consider him

    as a great metaphysician ^ and thought that Leibnitz's attack upon him was decisive as to the first principles of his philosophy . He used to reproach our English writers with their ignorance of or indifference to Leibnitz * Of

    Berkeley he used to speak with respect , though he felt unkindly towards him , as having led ( in his mind ) to that great nuisance , the German philoidphy ; but the writer of our nation whom

    he praised enthusiastically , both in his works and in conversation , was Shafi&bury I He somewhere , however ^ reproaches him with be ^ ing in his works rather a Lord than a Gentleman . —This

    judgment may seem strange in a severe censor of what he deemed immoral systems ; it may be interesting to know that another of Herder * s heroes in philosophy was Spino&a .

    He expressed indeed a decided hostility to his system , as a system ; yet the sublimity of Spinosa ' s great philosophic thought , his ewe substance , was congenial with

    Herder'is mind , and he veneraredt the pure and irreproachable character of the amiable and much calumniated sage . There is np doubt that it was the indignation Herder felt % t the tmworthy treatm £ ttf !> £ thiSk ^ rea * # nd good man ev 0 n now , from the literary arid philosophic vulgar , which bribed his

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    judgment $ for ptfierwise he . cqjald j * ot haye relished c # writjer so severely scientific as the author of the Ethices . - ,

    . The aversion to scholastic le ^ n * . ing v the reference to immediate feeling which marked the philosophic writings of Herder , was also characteristic of his religious works ; here also was the same

    attachment to the spirit above the letter 9 and as this disposition suits devotional much better than scientific works ; as philosophy may not improperly be described as the " science of religion / ' or " religion in a scienti ^ c fo rm , '

    and as in Jike manner religion is ic philosophy considered as an affair of sentiment ; " Herder * g Christian writings ( Christliche Schriften ) are far superior to his metaphysical works . They belong

    to the most excellent of " . His pen , and will be popular in- / every age and country iti which christiatiity is otherwise interesting , than as a subject of dispute . Herder viewed with jealousy the attach-, ment to biblical criticism in

    Germany ; and the labours of Paulus at Jena , were offensive to him . Herder wa ^ aa enemy to religious Controversy , and in matters of religion was a polemist only against polemics * \\\ his opinions he was altogether free from the

    timid scrupulousness and gloomy anxiety which so often denote the orthodox , but he was constitutionally pious and the very term rational Christianity would have dis * pieced him .

    Andthusmuchiscertain that man is not merely a rational being , that religion concerns the xvkolc , man , and that at leligious scheme which has avowedly a . partial reference , must be / iricp ^ pl ^ te and inadequate . Were Herder * *

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    176 Remarks on the Genius and Writings of Herder .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1808, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2391/page/4/