Excerpt from The History of Jesus of Nazara, Vol. 6: Freely Investigated in Its Connection With the National Life of Israel, and Related in Detail Among the most obnoxious public scourges of the present time, scarcely better than the narrow-minded fanatics of the extreme party in the orthodox camp, must be reckoned the Radical brawlers and enthusiasts. Since, with the previous decade, the happy years of prosperity dawned upon theological liberalism, no conclusion has been far-reaching enough for many persons; everything is distanced, and even they who have hitherto stood isolated at exposed posts and have suffered many things for their honestly candid speech enjoy perpetual summer. Their distinguished opponents, whose achievements in these provinces still remain to be hoped for, take up well-nigh the attitude of Luther against Erasmus or Reuchlin, now giving themselves the airs of erudite historians, advising others to let alone things which only they - the advisers - understand, and now much more justly behaving themselves as inexperienced laymen, who see in historical investigation nothing but an article. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.