Jordan and the Rhine: Or, the East and the West; Being the Result of Five Years' Residence in Syria, and Five Years' Residence in Germany (Classic Reprint)

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Chapter on An Oriental City as it is, and beg him to com pare it with what he may have read on the same subject. As to the Journals, my object is to give my fellow-countrymen an idea of Germany as it is - the black and the white - the faith and infidelity - the prodigious labours, and the still more prodigious imagination of that plodding philosophical race. The subjects are miscellaneous, and were suggested by the occurrences of the day, or the quiet meditations of the evening. Those who expect to find in Journals nothing but the simple records of mental experiences, will probably find little pleasure in mine, inasmuch as they take in a much wider range. They include glances at the hidden life of faith in the soul, and the outward hopes of the church and the creation - the obstinacy and the inveterate infidelity of the Jews, as well as God's purposes in them - the great apostacy, which is the Papacy, and the man of sin which is its head, as well as the coming of the Lord to destroy them - the state of Popery and Protestantism in Germany - the German theories of reasoning, rationalism, and inspiration-their philosophies, their poetry, and their history, as well as the peculiarities of their social and domestic life. There is, also, an occasional reference to the East, inasmuch as the impressions which it made on me remain indelible, and occupy no small portion of my heart. There is no lack of variety, and I can only lament my inability to do justice to such vast and varied materials.

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