text: " The healthy-toned reader who has been exercised in speculations of this kind will feel at once that there is much that is noble in all this and much that is true; but not a little also when examined in detail of that sublime-sounding sweep of despotic generality (so inherent a vice of German literature ) which delights to confound the differences rather than to discriminate the characters of things; much that seems only too justly to warrant that oracular sentence of the stern Fichte with which we set out "_The younger brother wants clearness_;" much that when applied to practice and consistently followed out in that grand style of consistency which belongs to a real German philosopher becomes what we in English call Puseyism and Popery and what Goethe in German called a "_chewing the cud of moral and religious absurdities_