47— let the Heiland be returned and through the gospel, it became that he has become. Since then, I often thought how stupid the Germanic people are, who now hate the new fashion of Christianity. Everything we are and have, we attribute to Christianity. Science, art, agriculture, crafts, cities, villages, houses – all came to us through Christianity earlier, as once, like wild animals, they roamed in the woods and fields and ate roots and branches, and I thought it was the best thing to drive the Germanic people and the contemptible deceivers of Christianity into the forests and woods, to create a fence around them and let them feed them acorns and wood roots until they come to a moment of contemplation. Young people have fascinating thoughts, but they are still not entirely wrong, and I believe that this is the best remedy for the hopeless. But I must return to my story. Where I found an old library, I searched for it in order to find something about Germany and especially about Luneburg. And I don’t regret the dust I absorbed in it, even though I often complained a lot when I found so many old, beautiful manuscripts covered in dust and mice almost destroyed, which were nowhere to be found, and who knows in how many years, no one worried about them. I really found a lot of things that were granted a reward for their searching. I made diligent outlines of the healthy. But I had also a lot of anger. I came from Steitungen and to the denses, in which there were especially noble estates. There, I wanted to see books and manuscripts from the old time. And should one believe? Whole old book collections were sold in the market by the merchants and I had the opportunity to see them. The more valuable are my extracts.

Let the Heiland be returned and through the gospel, it became that he has become. Since then, I often thought how stupid the Germanic people are, who now hate the new fashion of Christianity. Everything we are and have, we attribute to Christianity. Science, art, agriculture, crafts, cities, villages, houses – all came to us through Christianity earlier, as once, like wild animals, they roamed in the woods and fields and ate roots and branches, and I thought it was the best thing to drive the Germanic people and the contemptible deceivers of Christianity into the forests and woods, to create a fence around them and let them feed them acorns and wood roots until they come to a moment of contemplation. Young people have fascinating thoughts, but they are still not entirely wrong, and I believe that this is the best remedy for the hopeless. But I must return to my story. Where I found an old library, I searched for it in order to find something about Germany and especially about Luneburg. And I don’t regret the dust I absorbed in it, even though I often complained a lot when I found so many old, beautiful manuscripts covered in dust and mice almost destroyed, which were nowhere to be found, and who knows in how many years, no one worried about them. I really found a lot of things that were granted a reward for their searching. I made diligent outlines of the healthy. But I also had a lot of anger. I came from Steitungen and to the denses, in which there were especially noble estates. There, I wanted to see books and manuscripts from the old time. Should one believe? Whole old book collections were sold in the market by the merchants and I had the opportunity to see them. The more valuable are my extracts.