It is immediately obvious that such a view also takes on the form of piety; for with what has this activity not tried to authorize itself! But with godliness and the Bible, it has believed itself able to give the highest justification for despising ethical order and the objectivity of laws. For it is indeed also piety that wraps up the truth, which has branched out into an organic kingdom in the world, into the simpler intuition of feeling. But insofar as it is of the right kind, it abandons the form of this region as soon as it enters from the interior into the day of development and of the revealed richness of the idea, and brings from its inner worship a reverence for a truth and laws that exist in and for themselves, exalted above the subjective form of feeling.
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