THE  ESSENCE  OF  CHRISTIANITY.  By  Lud-
wiG  Feuerbach.  Translated  from  the  second  Ger-
man edition  by  Marian  Evans,  translator  of
"  Strauss' s  Life  of  Jesus."  One  handsome  12  mo
volume  of  442  pages,  large  type.     Price  $1,25.
This  is  "  the  most  powerful  materialistic  work  ever  written.'  It  may
be  considered  the  "  Positive  PhUoiophy  "  of  religion — the  ne  plus  ultra  of
intellectuality.
MR.  BLANCHAEiD's  PUBLICAriONS.  S

"  It  is  precisely  onr  task  to  show  that  theology  is  nothing  else  than
an  tmconscious,  esoteric  pathology,  anthropology  and  psychology."
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"To  every  one  who  prizes  truth,  who  is  capable  of  forming  a  judg-
ment, and  is  above  the  notions  and  prejudices  of  the  schools,  we  recom-
mend this  hook  as  worthy  of  attention  and  study," — Boston  Investi-
gator.
"JFeaerbach  occupies,  in  common  with  Strauss  and  Bruno  Bauer,  the
extreme  left  of  Hegelianism  in  Germany.  Strauss,  in  his  "  Life  of  J«.
sns,"  endeavors  to  exclude  the  historical  verity  of  Christianity,  Bruno
Bauer  its  BiMical  Evidences,  while  Keuerhach  completes  the  circle  by  an
assault  upon  Christianity  in  general.  The  peculiar  stand  point  of  the
latter,  given  out  with  much  apparent  philosophical  precision,  is  this —
that  all  religion  is  the  mere  projection  into  objective  exist-enoe  of  the  in-
ward thoughts  and  emotions  of  the  human  being.  *  *  *  There  is
some  truth  in  Feuerbach's  statement  that  men  make  then-  own  God, —
that  in  the  heroic  times  he  is  the  God  of  Battles, — to  the  Jews  a  narrow
and  avenging  Deity, — to  the  martyr  a  sympathetic  sufferer, — to  the  de-
vout monk  a  larger  pope,  and  to  the  speculative  thinker,  like  Hegel,  as
Menzel  says,  a  pedant  on  the  throne  of  the  universe." — Putnam's  M^mtiig.
