(a) I believe in one God, and one only.
(b) In order to teach this we need a form, especially for our children.
(c) This form has been up to the present time the Old Testament in its present state. Through investigation, inscriptions, and excavations, this form will certainly change materially; that does not matter, and even the fact that much will be lost from the nimbus of the chosen people does not matter. The kernel and the content remain ever the same: God and His work!
Religion was never the result of science but the outpouring of the heart and being of man in his intercourse with God.
With heartiest thanks and many greetings,
Your true friend,
(Signed) William, I. R.
P. S. You may make the fullest use of these lines; whoever wants to may read them.
[FREDERICK THE GREAT AND HIS ARMY]
Döberitz, May 29, 1903