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Letter to Victor Adler, August 19, 1892
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Source: Marx Engels on Literature and Art, Progress Publishers, 1976
Collection(s): Marx Engels on Literature and Art
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August 19, 1892[edit source]
I am studying early Christianity here, reading Renan and the Bible. Renan is terribly shallow but, as a man of the world, has a wider view than the German University theologians. Otherwise, his book is a novel, to which his comment on Philostratus can equally be applied: one can use it as an historical source just as one would use, say, the novels of Alexandre Dumas père on the Fronde period. On individual points I have caught him out in dreadful mistakes. Moreover he cribs from the Germans with unbounded impudence.