text:  Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were the men of his heart; he had a high opinion of Niebuhr both as a historian and as a practical statesman: Heeren he praised and recommended as the rough and practical: Fichte gained his good opinion by his patriotic addresses to the German people; but for philosophy in general he had no taste: Schleiermacher's philosophical religion was too subtle for him and in respect of orthodoxy more than suspicious; and the most famous recent German speculators he declared plainly MAD