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biography of “the essence of active [tätigen] pantheism” as being “to subordi-
nate the particular to the general, yet still to portray the former in the latter.”^167
The patriotic liberal German pantheist Rudolph is the voice of Auerbach’s Spi-
nozan Vaterland.^168 Spinoza would recede further into silence in Auerbach’s
Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten, but it was Auerbach’s Spinozan vision of the
German Volk that prepared the space the peasants of Nordstetten would come
to fill.
