[146] Sime, Life of Lessing, 1877, i, 102. [↑]
[147] E.g. his early notice of Diderot’s Lettre sur les Aveugles. Sime, i, 94. [↑]
[148] Dramaturgie, Stück 7. [↑]
[150] Sime, i, 73, 107; ii, 253. [↑]
[151] In his Gedanke über die Herrnhuter, written in 1750. See Adolf Stahr’s Lessing, sein Leben und seine Werke, 7te Aufl. ii, 183 sq. [↑]
[152] Julian Schmidt puts the case sympathetically: “He had learned in his father’s house what value the pastoral function may have for the culture of the people. He was bibelfest, instructed in the history of his church, Protestant in spirit, full of genuine reverence for Luther, full of high respect for historical Christianity, though on reading the Fathers he could say hard things of the Church.” Gesch. der deutschen Litteratur von Leibniz bis auf unsere Zeit, ii (1886), 326. [↑]
[153] Taylor, as cited, p. 361. [↑]
[155] See Lessing’s rather crude comedy, Der Freigeist, and Sime’s Life, i, 41–42, 72, 77. [↑]