Sophron and Neophilus, or The School of Wisdom

at all, for the sake of completely unproven hypotheses. Only among the great crowd of Christians who were little established in their faith and incapable of independent examination did some become wavering and sink into the most unhappy skepticism philosophical doubt, in which he now perhaps laments the loss of his peace of soul for a lifetime. Merely the frivolous person, eagerly grasping for the new and strange, merely this one became an eager proselyte and loud professor of the "fragment-religion"—and soon became something even worse, a "strong spirit," a mocker; and if he did not also become a scoundrel and villain, it would have been but a single step for him to become that as well. That is certainly worth the effort, to write such a little book of fragments! What do you think?

Neoph. But should one not allow our Horus so much more impartiality, since he deviates multiple times, and, as I believe, in the main points, from the fragmentist author of the Wolfenbüttel Fragments?