[293] E.g. “All knowledge, all conviction, all piety ... is based on the principle that in the spirit, as such, the consciousness of God exists immediately with the consciousness of itself.” Philos. of Relig. Eng. tr. introd. i. 42–43. [↑]
[294] Essence of Christianity, Eng. tr. 1854, p. 12. [↑]
[295] Kirchengeschichte des 19ten Jahrhunderts, pp. 393–94. [↑]
[296] Cp. A. Lévy, as cited, ch. iv. [↑]
[298] Reden über Religion, ihr Entstehen und Vergehen, an die Gebildeten unter ihren Verehrern—a parody of the title of the famous work of Schleiermacher. [↑]
[300] Büchner expressly rejected the term “materialism” because of its misleading implications or connotations. Cp. in Mrs. Bradlaugh Bonner’s Charles Bradlaugh the discussion in Pt. ii, ch. i, § 3 (by J. M. R.). [↑]
[301] While the cognate works of Carl Vogt and Moleschott have gone out of print, Büchner’s, recast again and again, continues to be republished. [↑]
[302] Cp. Paul Deschanel, Figures Littéraires, 1889, pp. 130–32, 171–73; Lévy-Bruhl, The Philosophy of Auguste Comte, Eng. tr. 1903, p. 190; and Ch. Adam, La Philosophie en France, 1894. p. 228. [↑]