There is good evidence that S.K. died in 1855 and stopped writing about the same time, but when one reads statements like the following he has cause to wonder. Once New Testament Christianity was reduced to the simply historical, and men imagined next that Christianity was perfectible, it was a quite straightforward discovery that there were various epochs. The epoch of the Son was New Testament Christianity, and now the epoch of the Spirit is at hand. Christianity in the New Testament is Christianity. In Christian terms there is absolutely no meaning in speaking of progress from generation to generation.
Every generation begins at the beginning, the examination is the same.
We laugh when we gee a man looking for his spectacles when they are on his nose. The truth about the Christian ideal is that it has existed, Christ has lived, the Model has been given. Only as a single person can there be any talk of striving for it. And if the single person is to strive for it he must as a matter of course turn in the direction of the existence of the ideal, he must turn back to it, if he really is to strive for it. For the sake of honesty it should be kept very plain that, even though S.K. shows a critical temper, an iconoclasm, a religionlessness, that sounds quite similar to what we are hearing today, nevertheless the entire course and movement of his religious thought is oriented in a direction diametrically opposed to that of our present-day radicals.