The Mass which approaches Criticism with a contrite heart, a spirit of repentance and a humble mind will be rewarded for its honest striving with many a wise, prophetic and outspoken word. Just as from the beginning God has had mercy on the poor in spirit , this mass-like but humble correspondent, too, who whimpers for mercy from Critical Criticism, has his wish fulfilled . Critical Criticism gives him a kind answer. It gives him most Profound explanations on the objects of his curiousity. The situation is now quite different .
Truths now change very quickly.
What was then opportune is now an oversight . If one can succeed in winning some spiritual superiority over the others, it will be the one which is in a position to criticise itself and the others and to discover the causes of the universal decay. Every nation has so far some advantage over another. Criticism has underlined passages printed and reaches its full bloom in excerpts. Wolfgang Menzel and Bruno Bauer stretch a brotherly hand to each other and Critical Criticism stands where the philosophy of identity stood at the beginning of this century, when Schelling protested against the mass-like supposition that he wanted to give something, anything except pure, entirely philosophical philosophy.