Entwicklung des Begriffs der Religion  

"Fichte published an article entitled “Development of the Notion of Religion,” sent to him by a certain Forberg, a schoolmaster at Saalfield . To this article Fichte added a short explanatory dissertation, under the title, “On the Ground of our Belief in a Divine Government of the World. ” Both articles were suppressed by the Government of the Electorate of Saxony, under the pretext that they were tainted with atheism. Simultaneously there was despatched from Dresden a requisition to the court of Weimar enjoining upon it the serious punishment of Professor Fichte. The court of Weimar did not, it is true, permit itself to be misled by such a demand but as Fichte on this occasion committed the gravest blunders, amongst others that of writing an “ Appeal to the Public " without the sanction of official authority , the Government of Weimar, offended at this step and importuned from other quarters , bad no alternative but to administer a inild reproof to the professor who had imprudently ex pressed his views. Fichte, however, considering himself in the right, was unwilling to submit to such reproof, and left Jena."--Religion and Philosophy in Germany: A Fragment (1834) by Heinrich Heine