The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.

Bruno Bauer (September 6 1809 – April 13 1882) was a German philosopher and historian. Hegel Bauer was a radical Rationalist in philosophy politics and Biblical criticism. Starting in 1840 he began a series of works arguing that Jesus was a 2nd-century fusion of Jewish Greek and Roman theology.