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LETTERS FROM GERMANY.
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . LIIF .
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No . X . Sir , Heidelberg * I send you a specimen of the moral and religious philosophy of Rationalism . It indicates the road by which many of its advocates have reached their present opinions on the subject of revelation : and whatever may be thought of its soundness , it may deserve notice as a doctrine in the
German schools , which , with some difference of expression , is embraced with full conviction , and recommended with ardent zeal , by men of intellectual and literary distinction in Germany . What follows is an abstract from several recent numbers of Zimmerman ' s Allgem . Kirch . Zeitung . The writer , Charles Hey , Archdeacon of Gotha , proposes to explain briefly the principal facts of our mental experience—sensations , ideas , consciousness , thought , identity , will , personality , the religious and moral feelings—by
deducing them from one source , the element out of , which all are successively developed . He is evidently a disciple of Jacobi , * the last improver on Kant ' s moral theory . The treatise is entitled , " On the Life of the Soul , especially in its Religious Development . * ' It is remarkable for its coincidence with the doctrine of universal divine illumination , as explained by some of the earliest teachers in the Christian Society of the Friends , and with the same result of a diminished respect for the instruction of a dead letter .
Jacobi's doctrine of immediate knowledge ( intuitive truths ) is , that there is knowledge-at fir >> t-hand , from which all knowledge at second-haud first receives its conditions , a knowledge without demonstration , which necessarily precedes demonstrable knowledge , is the ground on which it rests , pervades it , and presides over it ; that the ultimate elements of all oar knowledge are original , immediate feelluga and determinations of our senses aud of our reason ; that out of these elements the understanding constructs all our knowledge ; and that , therefore , from them is constructed the knowledge , not only that there is a God , but also what God in , that he is the sole being of pure reason ( the vernunftiges ) .
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MAY , 1831 .
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VOL . V . Y
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1831, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2597/page/1/
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