... not the faith, but the freedom from the faith, the half-stoical and smiling indifference to the seriousness of the faith, which made the slaves indignant at their masters and revolt against them ... in the whole phenomenon of the saint, it is undoubtedly the appearance of the miraculous therein— namely, the immediate SUCCESSION OF OPPOSITES, of states of the soul regarded as morally antithetical: ... in the case of the Celts, who have theretofore furnished also the best soil for Christian infection in the North: the Christian ideal blossomed forth in France as much as ever the pale sun of the...