The Essence of Christianity Author:Ludwig Feurbach Translated from the German by George Eliot. — "To his own age Feuerbach seemed a Prometheus. The publication of this title in 1841 stamped him a Titan who dared to rob the Gods of their treasured secrets. In the eyes of the young Hegelians, of whom Marx was one, Feuerbach appeared to have demolished the entrenched orthodoxies & to have prepared... more » the way for the recovery by man of his rightful heritage & of his "alienated essence. To many liberals he seemed to show the way in the struggle for self-understanding, authentic existence, & social freedom. In the eyes of the guardians of ecclesiastical & political officialdom, Feuerbach deserved no better fate than Zeus meted out to the unregenerate rebel in the great tragedy of Aeschylus."« less