Note 97 — Chapter IV · CHURCH AND THEOCRACY
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“... Let us at length discover that no society can long subsist that is based upon metaphysical absurdities.... Before me is a famous treatise on human nature by a Professor of Königsberg. No one has more profoundly meditated on the attributes of his subject. It is evident that in the deep study of his own intelligence he has discovered a noble method of expounding that of others. Yet when I close his volumes, can I conceal from myself that all this time I have been studying a treatise upon the nature—not of man, but of a German?”—Contarini Fleming.