HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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gross motives that underlie the most
generous deeds; the colophony that is
afterwards to blaze aloft into enthusiasm
; the bass drum, while on it repose
the drumsticks, which are destined to
sound the furious thunder of passion.
In short, he shows us the whole interior
machinery by which theatrical effects
are produced; he exposes the colossal
deceit by which men assume an appearance
far different from the reality, and
through which the truth and gladness
of life are lost.
RATIONALIST.
This name is in Germany applied to
those who hold that the claims of
reason should not be put aside in
matters of religion, in opposition to the
supernaturalists, who to a greater or
less degree discard reason in religion.
The latter, in their furious hate of the
poor rationalists, resemble the inmates
of a lunatic asylum, who, although they
will not believe in each other's hallucinations,
yet in a measure tolerate one
another. But with all the fiercer hate
do they turn against the man whom
they consider their common enemy,
who is no other than the physician who
seeks to restore their reason.