I have always had a respect for that woman's memory.' And here, filling his pipe from the canister, and lighting it at the taper, he recommenced smoking calmly and sedately.
'But is not suicide forbidden in the Bible ?' the youth demanded.
'Why, no; but what though it were!--the Bible is a respectable book, but I should hardly call it one whose philosophy is of the soundest.

I have said that it is a respectable book; I mean respectable from its antiquity, and from containing, as Herder says, "the earliest records of the human race," though those records are far from being dispassionately written, on which account they are of less value than they otherwise might have been.

There is too much passion in the Bible, too much violence; now, to come to all truth, especially historic truth, requires cool dispassionate investigation, for which the Jews do not appear to have ever been famous.

We are ourselves not famous for it, for we are a passionate people; the Germans are not--they are not a passionate people--a people celebrated for their oaths; we are.

The Germans have many excellent historic writers, we.