text:  The abode of peace has become the camp of war and the arena of battles; that dogmatical theology of the Christian church which if it be not the infallible pure mathematics of the moral world has been deceiving men for 1800 years and is a liar--that theology is now publicly discussed and denied scorned and scouted by men who do not blush to call themselves Christians; there is no universal peace any longer to be found in that region where it is the instinct of humanity before all things to seek repose; the only religious peace which the present age recognises is that of which the Indian talks when he says of certain epochs of the world's history _Brahma sleeps_! Those who sleep and are indifferent in spiritual matters find peace; but those who are alive and awake must beat the wind and battle belike with much useless loss of strength before they can arrive even at that first postulate of all healthy thinking--there is a God