SOURCE: “Der Christliche Glaube nach den Grundsätzen der Evangelischen Kirsche im zusammenhange dargestellt,” in The British Quarterly Review, May 1, 1849, pp. 303-54.

In the following essay, an anonymous reviewer examines Schleiermacher's ideology and his powerful influence on German theology.

Two countrymen, says the fable, were walking in the fields when they saw a cloud approaching, huge and dark. Ah, cried John, there comes the hail; our crops will be ruined, a famine in three months, then a pestilence, then—Hail! interrupted Thomas, that cloud carries rain, the very thing we want, we shall make a fortune this summer. The dispute grew warm. Meanwhile the wind had carried the cloud almost out of sight. They had neither rain nor hail. So the appearance of some new system has been frequently observed to awaken expectations the most opposite. Such principles, exclaim some, are the evil portents of the age, fraught...