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--developed somewhat anti-clerical tendencies in his teaching and writing, he was forced to resign, and died a simple Canon. [1488] The Emperor Joseph II in his day passed for an unbeliever; [1489] but there was no general movement.
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Austria, in a time of universal effervescence, produced only musicians, and showed zest only for pleasure. [1490] Yet among the music-makers was the German-born Beethoven, the greatest master of his age. Kindred in spirit to Goethe, and much more of a revolutionist than he in all things, Beethoven spent the creative part of his life at Vienna without ceasing to be a freethinker. [1491]
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Formal religion he apparently had none. He copied out a kind of theistic creed consisting of three ancient formulas:
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I am that which is :
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I am all that is, that was, that shall be :
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He is alone by Himself; and to Him alone do all things owe their being. Beyond this his beliefs did not go. When his friend Moscheles at the end of his arrangement of Fidelio wrote:
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Fine, with God's help, Beethoven added,
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O man, help thyself.