"Ceremonialism" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... directed to the feelings of their co-religionists. They labored under the delusion that positive reasoning could carry conviction to a people immersed in mystical speculation, crushed by the double yoke of ceremonialism and an inferior social position, and sustained only by the Messianic hope of a glorious future. If Galician humanism never spread beyond the small circles of the literary, it was only what might have been expected. It could not ...
— The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) • Nahum Slouschz |
