"Sich," sprach der Greis, "hast du denn nicht gelesen: Wenn Menschen schweigen, werden Steine schreien? Nicht spotte ferner, Sohn, mit Gottes Wort! Lebendig ist es, kräftig, schneidet scharf, Wie ein zweischneidig Schwert, und sollte gleich Das Menschenherz sich ihm zum Trotz versteinen. So wird im Stein ein Menschenherz sich regen."
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Cp. the Latin maxim Saxa loquuntur, from :40: Wenn diese schweigen werden, so werden die Steine schreien. (Luther Bible)
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Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten
(1 February 1758 – 26 October 1818), later adopting the second name Theobul or Theoboul, was a German poet, Lutheran preacher and a professor of history at the . His son Gottfried became an orientalist and historian.
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