[58] Critical History of Free Thought, p. 249.
[59] Life of Jesus—Introduction.
[60] History of the Christian Religion and Church. Preface to First Edition.
[61] Germany—Its Universities, Theology, and Religion, pp. 269-270.
CHAPTER XI.
THE REACTION PRODUCED BY STRAUSS' LIFE OF JESUS.
1835-1848.
It is related of Apelles, that, after finishing his pictures, he was in the habit of hanging them in front of his studio and then of concealing himself in order to hear unseen the criticisms of the passers-by. On one occasion, when a new picture was thus exposed to public inspection, a shoemaker stopped before it and observed that something was wrong about a sandal. After he had gone Apelles saw the justice of the objection and corrected the fault. The next day, when the shoemaker was passing again and saw that much importance had been attached to his opinion, he ventured to criticise a leg, but Apelles rushed out from behind the curtain, and, charging him with being hypercritical, told him that for the future he would do better to keep to his trade. The circumstance gave rise to the Roman proverb—"Ne sutor ultra crepidam."