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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: own reputation. He was not the man to quail before any amount of
human opposition; and it was when the tempest of invective was
just at its height that he published the last and boldest
Fragment of all,--on "the Designs of Jesus and his Disciples."
The publication of these Fragments led to a mighty controversy.
The most eminent, both for uncompromising zeal and for worldly
position, of those who had attacked Lessing, was Melchior Goetze,
"pastor primarius" at the Hamburg Cathedral. Though his name is
now remembered only because of his connection with Lessing,
Goetze was not destitute of learning and ability. He was a
collector of rare books, an amateur in numismatics, and an
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