Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it.

By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded to him.

An absolutely new idea, the idea of a worship founded on purity of heart, and on human brotherhood, through him entered into the world--an idea so elevated, that the Christian Church ought to make it its distinguishing feature, but an idea which, in our days, only few minds are capable of embodying.
[Footnote 1: Matt.v.23, 24.] [Footnote 2: Isaiah i.

11, and following.

Compare ibid., lviii.
entirely; Hosea vi.