"You must read Voss’s review of the Symbolik to learn how entirely misguided and crazy we are to believe that before Homer and in addition to this great hero, there were actually other people in the world. Yes, we must be burnt, along with all others who think anything of the Orient, and of Moses, Zoroaster, Buddha and whatever else the liars are called. We are mystagogues and seducers of the young. In a word, we should renounce the devil and embrace Voss’s Mythologische Briefe as the book of books."
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Creuzer to Hammer-Purgstall, December 3, 1821, in Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgseall, Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben, 1774-1852 (Vienna, 1940), p. §43.
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Georg Friedrich Creuzer
Georg Friedrich Creuzer (German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈkʁɔʏtsɐ]; 10 March 1771 – 6 February 1858) was a German philologist and archaeologist.
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