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..."Whether more can be expected from [...] awaken the defunct of Hebrew language from the design of that errant knight who sought to gather and reconcile the scattered limbs of the people, time must tell."
I understand the heavy tone of this sentence. I understand.

The rigid law of French language down to the level of grammar and parole and its political and cultural effects goes like "the purity of a language dispossesses it of its wealth; a correctness that is all too rigid takes away its strengh and manhood"
Oh Herr Hamann marry me.

"A head that thinks at its own expense will always trespass on laguage; but an author in the pay of a society approves the words that have been prescribed to him like a mercenary poet composing verses to set rhymes which lead him to the tracks of those thoughts and opinions which are the most suitable."
But the suitable shall fail. Hamann quotes Corinthians:"[...]For we know in part, and we prophesy in part."

Yeah, I understand why some people regard him as one radicalizing Enlightenment rather than simply rejecting it, he was roasting the box frame rather than picking a side. No wonder he's at odd of everyone, especially with the milestone, Kant.

Heeeeheeeeheeeeee

"Hamann extends the principle, seeing in language the interrelation of human and divine generally, [...] Hamann's holism, then has a primary theological orientation which lies behind his rejection of the opposition between and even the dualism of, faith and reason, idealism and realism, objectivity and subjectivity, body and spirit."

Oh, sure, of course, my man.