6o Kant: A Biographythe only time he was ever in Königsberg, he left little doubt about his sen¬
timents. When a student told him that he wanted to go for a year to study
at Halle, the king asked: "Why?" The University of Halle was no good.
"Sein alle Mucker,'''' that is, they are all Pietists! The opponents of Pietism
in Königsberg immediately took the opportunity to blacken the reputation
of Schulz, telling the king that he went to people's houses, confiscated
their playing cards, and excluded them from confession and the eucharist
until they gave up card playing.^129 Schulz noted that "the enemies of the
realm of God mightily raise their heads," yet his own head - much to the
chagrin of the orthodox — was not cut off. Because the new king succeeded
where his father had failed, namely in bringing Wolff back to Halle as a
professor of law and vice chancellor of the university, there were expecta¬
tions that things would change in Königsberg as well and that there would
be more freedom of religion. Yet the Pietists remained more influential
than their enemies had hoped. Their power was on the decline, but they
held onto their privileges much longer than anyone expected. Being more
interested in the expansion of the territory of Prussia than in his intellec¬
tual pursuits, the new king left administrative matters more or less as his
father had arranged them. He wanted to acquire a reputation for Prussia,
and his ambition was, as he said, "to put all of Europe to the torch."^130