[186] See above, pp. 321, 328. [↑]

[187] Kant distinguishes explicitly between “rationalists,” as thinkers who would not deny the possibility of a revelation, and “naturalists,” who did. See the Religion innerhalb der grenzen der blossen Vernunft, Stück iv, Th. i. This was in fact the standing significance of the term in Germany for a generation. [↑]

[188] Letter to his brother, February 2, 1774. [↑]

[189] Known as Zopf-Schulz from his wearing a pigtail in the fashion then common among the laity. “An old insolent rationalist,” Kurtz calls him (ii, 270). [↑]

[190] Hagenbach, Kirchengeschichte, i, 372; Gostwick, pp. 52, 54. [↑]

[191] Philosophische Betrachtung über Theologie und Religion überhaupt, und über die Jüdische insonderheit, 1784. [↑]

[192] Pünjer, i, 544–45. [↑]

[193] Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ch. ix, Bohn ed. p. 71. [↑]

[194] See the details in Hagenbach, Kirchengeschichte, i, 368–72; Kahnis, p. 60. [↑]

[195] Marokkanische Briefe. Aus dem Arabischen. Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1785. The Letters purport to be written by one of the Moroccan embassy at Vienna in 1783. [↑]